Annotated Bibliography on Gender Issue in the Film Industry

Laura Mulvey. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. - Screen 16.3 (1975) pp. 6-18

In this essay, Mulvey argues that the film industry is based on patriarchal unconscious where audience are made to derive pleasure from the different sufferings women go through. In another angle view, Mulvey states that such films are designed to attract the male audience who without consent fall in love with such movies.

Annotated bibliography

Dawson, Lesel. "Revenge and the family romance in Tarantino's Kill Bill." Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 47.2 (2014): 121-134.

This film features women in her wedding dress lying wounded in the chapel after a voracious attack by a Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. The woman tells the leader of the squad that she is carrying her baby. However, he shoots her in the head. For a considerable length of time, womens, suffering have been a source of enjoyment among the audiences of films. Many films such as are inherent in some of the odds that women face such as objection, battery, murder, bullying, and others. One interesting thing about such scenes inherent in the movie is the fact that it tends to create a sense of enjoyment and pleasure seeing the hurt woman suffer. Such artworks have taken an active part in dehumanizing and eliminating women characters. Often, the compositional features of women have been destroyed by such films in the process of creating artistic nature inherent in them.

Grant, Barry Keith, Ed. The dread of difference: Gender and the horror film. University of Texas Press, 2015.

The authors of this article argue that even is the movie had been poorly received initially, its revival is a depiction of what many film lovers think about the position of women in cinema. This article divulges and takes a different angle view on this issue. The report argues that it is the audience who demand such scenes where women are dehumanized.

Powell, Michael, et al. Peeping Tom. Kinowelt Home Entertainment, 2010.

This film features the leading actor, Mark Lewis, who takes pride in killing women. Definitely, this movie was poorly received, and after some critiques, the director of the film had his career ruined by a ton of critics. This film was later re-evaluated, and people attested that it is the masterpiece work done by the director. Owing to the fact that the main actor frenzies in taking having sex with women and then murdering them, such films play a critical role in assassinating the part of female characters in cinema. Evidently, such artworks serve a function in dehumanizing them.

Smelik, Anneke. "Feminist film theory." The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016).

The author posits that even though the audience and critics of the movie might try to make this film sound the best, scenes, where women are dehumanized, are blatant. It brings to light the fact that women are being used as tools of making the films interesting by filmmakers.