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Strange Days (1995)

In “White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory, ” Jane Gaines argues that the white female image is related to objectification, fetishization, and symbolic absence while the black female is linked to a representation of symbolic resistance and the 'paradox of not being.' In Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, we can clearly observe the distinction between the white female image and the black female image mentioned above. For instance, in the scene where Mace is caught by the police officers who are trying to destroy the copy of a video she has, she is beaten up by the two officers without any objectification of the female figure. The way she is beaten up is similar to the classical way that the badass ‘male hero’ is beaten up. This particular scene can be contrasted to the ones of the white female figures been physically assaulted where there’s always objectification and sexualization such as in Iris’ murder. Additionally, the scene where Mace is beaten up by the police officers, the audience sees how the black crowd in the background reacts almost immediately to defend her which is a clear representation of the resistance of the black community as mentioned by Gaines.

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Pariah (2011)

In both writings, “She’s Gotta Have It” and “Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion,” the authors discuss sexuality. Specifically, in Judith Butler’s piece, she talks about how the sexuality of lesbianism’s framework is a mask and false, stating that heterosexuality is always true. She also discusses how lesbianism is seen as the outcome when heterosexuality is derailed; lesbianism is caused specifically by the failure of heterosexuality instead of being observed as another form of valid love. In Pariah, this idea of lesbianism being seen as a failure was expressed by her mother, Audrey’s, reaction when Lee comes out to her parents as well as the last scene when Lee and her mother are talking, and her mother doesn’t say that she loves her. Her mother simply says that she will pray for her, almost trying to ‘un-derail’ her daughter’s sexuality. In Felly Nkweto Simmonds analysis, she discusses how the film, She’s Gotta Have It, reclaims black women’s sexuality and reexamines the politics and the social conceptions behind it. With that being said, the film, Pariah adds another layer on top of this reexamination- lesbianism. Alike is a gay black woman who is trying to figure out her life with the negative perception of lesbians within the black community. By including the additional aspect of being gay, the film was able to extend on Simmonds analysis; it is another text that is trying to examine and redefine complete black female sexuality.

austinlord1

It’s very interesting how you used the Simmonds article in this post. This could’ve just been an LGBT coming of age film, but instead it ended up being so much more with the addition of race into the mix. This ends up breaking many typical barriers that the film industry set up by introducing a very non-traditional film.

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I loved the realism in this film. Not only did it show the complexity of Alike trying to find her identity as a black lesbian women but the outsider view of the LGBT community and the disapproval they may have to face.