Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...
From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...
By being caught by their eyes was invitation enough, yet the woman ignores the men no matter what: "They whistled and shouted but the legs did not move."" ... The cultural code negotiates with cultural, social and scientific knowledge which goes on between the reader and the writer. ...
This only goes to show that Stanley was a male chauvinist totally selfish and felt that women ought not be independent but to be domineered by men! ... In the middle of the passage, we note that the men take turns to go have a peek at the woman whilst working and they report to one another of the progress that she's made. ...
The tabloids go crazy for this "good girl- idol and Roxie has suddenly got all the fame she dreamed of. ... Velma's body language is very strong; the first parts of her we see are her legs, which are striding to the stage door with purpose and authority. The narrative in itself explains to the audience the type of person Velma must be to murder her husband and sister, and yet still go on to perform, and enjoy it. ...
