Critical Perspectives - Proposal OGR

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Author: Susan J.

Wolfe
Critical Position: Writer Author: Carolyn Korsmeyer
Title: Feminine Beauty and the Male Gaze Critical Position: Professor of Philosophy
Publisher/Publication: Academinist.org Title: Gender and Aestetics
Volume: 1 Publisher/Publication: Routledge
Date: 20th May 2006 Place of Publication: New York/London
Date: 2004
Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
Discusses the effects of the male gaze throughout the TV
show ‘The L Word’, by looking at how lesbians are often Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
presented throughout the show as ‘still available to men’. It Discusses the roles that gender plays on creativity, genius and
also discusses the shows suggestion of a ‘fictional inner aesthetic qualities. It also discusses feminist practices.
sanctum’ within its storyline and its suggestion of ‘this is how it
is’. Book.

Journal Article.
Author: Amin Ghaziani
Author: Laura Mulvey
Critical Position: N/A
Critical Position: Professor of Film and Media
Studies Title: Post-Gay Collective Identity
Construction
Title: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Publisher/Publication: Social Problems
Publisher/Publication: Screen
Date: 2011
Date: 1975
Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
Subject/Key Points and Potential Use: This article explains the concepts behind the post-
This article discusses that the mainstream film form
gay effect, the queer community, living in a post
revolves around the patriarchal unconscious deriving
modernistic world, along with the lgbtq+ activists,
from narcissism. It discusses the male audience as
othering themselves, creating an us vs them in terms
norm. It also discusses the male gaze theory.
of queer and straight.

Journal. Journal.
Author: Juan A. Suarez Author: Schwarz M
Title: Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars Critical Position: N/A
Publisher/Publication: Indiana University Title: Lesbians Representation Evolution in
Mainstream Media
Press
Place of Publication: USA Publisher/Publication: Arts and Social
Sciences Journal
Date: 1996
Date: 2016
Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
The book discusses the gay subculture of the 1960’s Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
and the author discovers the postmodern aesthetic Discusses the integration of lesbians within western
that has been gay-influenced, and how it has been media such as film, TV and internet web series. It also
recycled within popular culture. explains the evolution of such integration including
stereotypes and stigmas.
Book. Journal Article.
Author: Karen Frost Author: Deborah Shaw
Title: Lesbian Representation in the Early Critical Position: Journalist
2000’s
Title: Return of ‘The L Word’: representing
Publisher/Publication: After Ellen lesbian desire on screen in a new era
Date: 2017 Publisher/Publication: The Conversation
Date: 2017
Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
It discusses the evolution of lesbian representation
from 2000 to the present, mentioning relevant Subject/Key Points and Potential Use:
sources such as The L Word and Buffy the Vampire Talks about the reboot of The L word and the cultural
Slayer. shifts that it will need to adjust to.

Website. Website.

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