Research

Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction (Teresa De Lauretis) (1987)

Link: http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=twvWBdWSTSMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=gender+theory+in+film&ots=UltiYptjZy&sig=5r0M5fp3hRFmKFQxql0IDaYoR_8

Quote: "I will proceed by stating a series of propositions in decreasing order of self-evidence and subsequently will go back to elaborate on each in more detail. Gender is a representation--which is not to say that it does not have concrete or real implications, both social and subjective, for the material life of individuals. On the contrary, The representation of gender is its construction--and in the simplest sense it can be said that all of Western Art and high culture is the engraving of the history of that construction." (Page 3) This quote leads me to believe that there are certain character types in regards to gender, coming from certain types of people in society:"What happened to the 'strong silent type'?"- Tony Soprano.

Quote: "To continue to pose the question of gender in either of these terms, once the critique of patriarchy has been fully outlined, keeps feminist thinking bound to the terms of Western patriarchy itself, contained within the frame of a conceptual opposition that is 'always already' inscribed in what Frederic Jameson would call 'the political unconscious' of dominant cultural discourses and their underlying 'master narratives'- be they biological, medical, legal, philosophical, or literary-and so will tend to reproduce itself, to retextualize itself, as we shall see, even in feminist rewritings of cultural narratives." (Page 2)

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