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Aug 20, 2018 · However, the Bechdel Test comes under regular criticism because even some of the most un-feminist of movies (*cough* American Pie 2) have passed, so we’ve found some other tests that look further into female representation and racial intersectionality for your consideration. 1. The Duvernay Test
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Feb 18, 2024 · They might be made for women, about women, or by women, and they aren't always of the all-in-your-face type of feminism. Here are my picks for the best feminist movies worth watching, how they were progressive, and what they did right in execution.
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Oct 12, 2022 · Have you heard of the Bechdel Test? It is a measurement of female representation in popular media, and is applied to see how well a movie depicts women. The Bechdel Test is simple (a little too…
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The story of two individuals from a broken relationship who opt to undergo a futuristic procedure to erase their painful memories, the overwhelming focus in Eternal Sunshine is on the relationship between Kate Winslet’s Clementine Kruczynski and Jim Carrey’s Joel Barish. Like many other great (hetero) relationship movies, it fails the Bechdel test ...
Over three suffocating days (and over three hours of film), single mother Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) cooks, cleans, and engages in a bit of light but joyless sex work in order to pay the bills. Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece crafts the drudgery of one woman’s daily life into an unconventional, uncompromising, and mesmerising epic. Many critics...
Alison Bechdel herself has offered up Jackie Brownas a great example of a movie that doesn’t meet the standard of her eponymous test, but which remains an “amazing feminist text.” Pam Grier’s cash-smuggling flight attendant cannily struggles for financial independence, in the process both leaning into and subverting the badass chick tropes of the B...
The Hays Code, the set of self-imposed guidelines designed to keep movies studios out of trouble with religious leaders and conservative audiences, forbade anything remotely feminist in ways both implicit and explicit, so it’s a stretch to call any movie made during the decades of its enforcement (roughly 1934 until the late 1960s) “feminist.” That...
There’s only one named female character in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s emotional silent masterpiece, and that’s Jeanne d’Arc herself, played by Renée Jeanne Falconetti. No matter. The camera is fixated on Falconetti’s face in her role as the martyr-in-waiting, powerfully (if fruitlessly) defending her actions and faith against religious authorities who r...
Jodie Foster’s unforgettable Clarice Starling is very much in a man’s world as the FBI trainee assigned to the case of serial killer Buffalo Bill. The other female characters are either victims or largely incidental, and almost every conversation involves either Buffalo Bill or Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lector, who becomes both her nemesis and a pu...
Even if feminism had been in the zeitgeist America of the 1950s, I’m not sure that conservative-leaning Joan Crawford would have particularly appreciated the label. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to see the triumphs of her career in those particular terms, and it’s nearly impossible not to see Johnny Guitaras an early feminist classic. There’s a love ...
While the focus on the central relationship between Lady Gaga’s Ally Maine and Bradley Cooper’s Jack and offers only one or two very brief interactions between named female characters that don’t quite qualify as conversations, this film is all about the rise of Ally Maine and the slow, painful of her troubled and substance-abusing romantic partner....
This one’s a slight cheat, in that there are several named female characters and a couple of short interactions that don’t deal directly with discussions of Ike Turner; with that, it probably gets a technical pass. Still, the movie is overwhelmingly about Tina Turner’s life in relationship to her abusive marriage. Angela Basset’s Turner is an all-t...
In the play on which His Girl Friday was based (also filmed as The Front Pagein 1931) the reporter character Hildy Johnson was a man, while this adaptation casts Rosalind Russell in the role and builds in a fast-talking relationship with ex-husband and newspaper editor Walker Burns (Cary Grant). I’m not sure if that gender swap helps or hurts the f...
Mar 30, 2022 · She created her own three criteria test with the following factors for a movie: (1) at least two named female characters with at least 5 lines of dialogue each, (2) must have a conversation not about their relationship/their partner, (3) and at least one woman has to be integral to the plot.
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The Bechdel Test, or Bechdel-Wallace Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria: (1) it has to have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man.
