Introduction

2015 ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Emily Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Micro Analysis

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002). The film offers much, both in terms of thematic analysis and micro analysis of the sound, performance, cinematography, editing, and mise-en-scène. Almodóvar can be considered to be a director who is a specialist in gender and the issue of gender identity is explored in Talk to Her, particularly the notion that gender characteristics are fluid and not fixed. Almodóvar's characters simultaneously embody and reject gender stereotypes and share both feminine and masculine attributes. Most of all, what makes Talk to Her such an interesting film to dissect, is the uneasy position that Almodóvar places the spectator in and how its messages and values create moral ambiguity. The film delivers morally complex, hazy messages about rape, voyeurism, and obsession and consequently, the spectator finds humour where they should find revulsion and sympathy where they should find anger. As a result, the film has sparked a great deal of critical, theoretical, and philosophical analysis, particularly around the issue of rape.

Grave Visions: Visual Experience and Adaptation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard David Evan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Francis Ford Coppola ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Look ◽  
Insight Into

Rather than approaching the ‘look’ of adaptation through point of view or the ‘vision’ of the adapter, this chapter examines the material, visible texture of screen adaptation. Using two adaptations of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula, I analyse how each uses mise en scène, cinematography, and editing to thicken and make tangible Stoker’s questioning of the reliability of vision in modernity. The first, Nosferatu (F.W Murnau, 1922) employs the tricks of early cinema to shock spectators, while the second—Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)—uses a neo-baroque aesthetic that ruptures the screen and engulfs the spectator, much like one of Dracula’s victims. This chapter suggests that critical insight into an adaptation can be found quite literally in sight, and embraces how the materiality of adaptation overlaps with the materiality of vision.

Discovering Usher

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Target Audience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Look ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Magic Lantern

This introductory chapter provides an overview of House of Usher (1960), which was a part of American International Pictures' TV series The Curse of Corman. This TV series introduced American International's Poe pictures to a new generation. It is the emotional intensity conveyed through the mise-en-scène that sets the Poe pictures apart from their immediate rivals. The Poe pictures appealed to AIP's target audience — teenagers — because their aesthetics were also akin to the look and feel of EC horror comics. More than any of the other Poe pictures, House of Usher is a work of pulp expressionism that appeals to the angst holed up inside the minds of many a teenage audience member. Like a magic lantern, the film projector reveals a series of beautifully crafted, colourful tableau that in sequence give expression to Edgar Allan Poe's vision of human frailty and corruption, and the void that awaits beyond the threshold of life. This book explains why House of Usher has attracted a cult audience for nearly 60 years.

Should We Program Robotic Emotions from the Gender Perspective?

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mercedes García-Ordaz ◽  
Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco ◽  
Francisco José Martínez-López
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
Gender Perspectives

Scientific research on robotic emotions has been increasingly developing for the last few years. It is presumed that in twenty five years’ time there will be robots with emotions capable of taking decisions. Therefore, it is important to determine if people should take into account gender when designing the development of this kind of robotic emotions. Moreover, the authors assume that nowadays there is no intelligence without emotions, which are the ones that ultimately help taking decisions. It is contended here that the emotional elements and features of human reasoning should be taken into account when designing the personality of robots. As has been shown in the last few years, the concept of gender is constructed by socio-cultural factors. Gender perspectives are increasingly being applied to different fields of knowledge. Indeed, and as recent feminist research has highlighted, technology is affected by gender relations. Technology in general has been traditionally considered as a sign of men’s power and masculinity defined in terms of technological capabilities. Nevertheless, current discourses have provided new definitions of technology, of gender identity and of what being human means. In the same way, definitions of gender also change with time, affected by technological developments. The present work aims at demonstrating that the gender perspective is indeed very useful when applied to the field of robotics. Specifically, and when dealing with complex decision-taking, it becomes necessary to analyse which managing activities women can better develop in order to apply them, together with other features, to the design of robotic emotions. The purpose is, then, to propose a robotic model that, after the inclusion of such emotional aspects, breaks with old constrained gender stereotypes and takes a rather liberating view. At the same time, such a proposal should enable researchers to get better results when creating robots capable of managing other robotic teams and taking complex decisions. In short, the authors seek to apply the gender perspective in the analysis of some emotional features to be taken into account before they are applied to the field of robotics.

scholarly journals Co-educating the gaze against gender stereotypes in TV

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Belmonte-Arocha ◽  
Silvia Guillamón-Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Feminine

TV serials analyzed in this paper show a representation of stereotyped gender. These cultural products, despite its apparent modernity, reproduce inequalities in the representation of the feminine and masculine through gender stereotypes which are sexist models for the construction of gender identity among its young viewers. Besides, a gender and co-education approach for an audiovisual alphabetization should be a good way against inequality. Se analizan en este trabajo un conjunto de series de televisión que plantean una representación estereotípica de los géneros. Pese a su aparente modernidad, múltiples productos culturales-televisivos siguen siendo portadores de discursos que reproducen la desigualdad en la representación de lo femenino y lo masculino, a través de estereotipos de género que actúan como modelos de desigualdad para la construcción de identidad de sus jóvenes espectadores. Frente a ellas, una alfabetización audiovisual, desde un enfoque coeducativo, podría ser un buen instrumento contra la desigualdad.

scholarly journals Theatre as Art: Philosophical and Sociological Analysis in the Space of Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Atanov ◽  
Ekaterina Zimina
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Spectator

The article presents a deep socio-philosophical analysis of theatre. The essence of theatre is considered as entirely based on real experiences and on the principle of reality that not necessarily refers to personality and often, being in the world as a community of the ultimate order, only indicates the presence of individuals. The plots offered to the spectator by theatre and theatrical art are considered. The sociological approach in the article appears as a form of obtaining knowledge about actuality in the framework of reality and can indicate the context of what is happening: what people are interested in, why they have this interest and what form it turns into. The institutional approach is used for considering theatre. The characteristics of theatre as a social institution are analyzed. The article presents the findings of the focus group, whose aim was to identify young peoples views as a major socio-demographic group about the place of theatre in the modern space.

scholarly journals Research of gender features of pharmacists

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Rita Sahaidak-Nikitiuk ◽  
Olena Kozyrieva ◽  
Nataliya Alokhina ◽  
Nataliya Demchenko ◽  
Mariya Zarichkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Personal Orientation

The aim of the study is to determine the gender characteristics of pharmacists. Materials and methods. To study gender characteristics, a survey of pharmacy specialists was conducted using a specially designed questionnaire and psychological methods: “Locus of control” (J. Rotter test modified by O. Ksenofontova), study of volitional personality qualities (questionnaire of N. Stambulova); Cattell test 16 PF; diagnostics of interpersonal relations (T. Leary test in modification by L. Sobchyk), express diagnostics of resistance to conflicts, methods of studying personality orientation (test of V. Smekal and M. Kucher). Results. The relevance of the study of gender characteristics of pharmacists is substantiated. The level of involvement of women in management in the economy, politics, education, in law enforcement and health authorities in Ukraine has been analyzed, which indicates gender identity. The essence of gender analysis according to specifics of pharmacy is determined. The manifestations of masculinity-femininity in pharmacists have been studied. The level of subjective control of pharmacists is analyzed. Characteristic features of men and women pharmacists are estimated. The volitional qualities of pharmacists have been studied. Conflict resistance was diagnosed. The types of interaction between men and women pharmacists are studied. Conclusions. It has been proven that women pharmacists are feminine and prone to gender stereotypes. Male pharmacists have a low level of subjective control and do not associate actions with subsequent events, as well as show themselves as independent, determined, courageous, purposeful, proactive, persistent professionals with endurance and self-control. It was found that both women pharmacists and men pharmacists show an average level of conflict resistance. The personal orientation is revealed, so at men-pharmacists motives of own well-being and aspiration to prestige prevail

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING GENDER IDENTITY IN WOMEN’S SPEECH

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Л. Р. Раупова ◽  
Г. Г. Ниязова
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Women's Speech ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Linguistic Means

мақолада ўзбек детектив матнларини ўрганиш орқали асардаги аёл қаҳрамонлар нутқининг социопрагматик ва гендер хусусиятлари, ижтимоий ўзига хосликларини аниқлашнинг усул ва воситалари тадқиқ этилди. Хусусан, аёллар ўртасидаги мулоқотнинг ижтимоий хосланиши, шева ва ноадабий қатламга оид тил бирликларининг прагматик жиҳатдан ифода имкониятлари таҳлил қилинган. the article examines the sociopragmatic and gender characteristics of the speech of female heroines in the work, methods and means of determining social characteristics by studying the texts of the Uzbek detective. In particular, the possibilities of pragmatic expression of dialectical and non-linguistic units of social identity, dialectical and non-linguistic units of communication between women were analyzed. в статье исследованы социопрагматические и гендерные характеристики речи героинь женского пола в произведении, методы и средства определения социальных особенностей путем изучения текстов узбекского детектива. В частности, были проанализированы возможности прагматического выражения диалектических и неязыковых единиц социальной самобытности, диалектических и неязыковых единиц общения между женщинами.

scholarly journals Violence against women in politics on Twitter a micro-analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mackenzie Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Public Office ◽  
Micro Analysis

Gendered negativity attacks a person's gender identity to make the victim feel inferior. These attacks reenforcing gender norms and patriarchal ideologies. Women in politics, especially those who hold positions of high visibility, face a significant amount of gendered negativity compared to their male counterparts. Gendered negativity against women in politics can discourage women from pursue public office and other leadership positions.

scholarly journals Verbalization of the Concept WOMAN (On the Material of Female Dialect Discourse)

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
M. A. Tolstova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
State University ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Gossip Girl ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Gender Conceptualizations ◽  
And Behavior

This article is devoted to the development of a linguistic model for describing the concept WOMAN. The material is women’s dialect discourse. The sources of the material are the Tomsk dialect corpus which includes materials of expeditions organized by dialectologists of Tomsk State University from 1946 to the present days on the territory of Middle Ob dialects spread. In the article we used modeling method based on the idea of the nominative field of a concept, as well as an interpretation technique relying on analysis of contexts, and a method of quantitative calculations used in relation to units that represent the concept. Lexical and phraseological units that make up the nominative field of the concept were revealed during the research. These units were divided into the following lexical-semantic groups: 1) the general nominations of a female person; 2) age and status in marriage; 4) status in the family hierarchy; 5) anatomical and biological characteristics; 6) character traits and behavior; 7) appearance characteristics; 8) profession and work processes. Elements of different layers of the concept are revealed in each lexical- semantic group. All of them give a general picture of ideas about women. So, the basis for identifying of gender conceptualizations and stereotypes is the presence of linguistic oppositions of male and female; the presence of a large number of lexical units that reflect the status of marriage (girl, bride, young woman, wife, mistress, old woman, widow, old girl, brooch and so on); lexical pairs that are opposed to each other on the basis of evaluation “positive” – “negative” (clean, clean – dirty, mistress – disheveled, etc.). A large number of words that negatively assess certain qualities and behavior of women (gossip girl, market woman, stramovka, etc.) indicate the high requirements imposed on the woman, the condemnation of deviations from social norms. The content of the concept of WOMAN depends on the specifics of rural existence, which is based on work, the presence of patriarchal gender stereotypes, social and historical events and processes. The significance of the research is determined by the possibility of using its results for development of a new interdisciplinary scientific field – gender dialectology that studies the gender characteristics of the dialect.

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