Reframing the Gaze: How Women Filmmakers Influence the Portrayal of Women On-Screen

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dc.contributor.authorDeck, Megan Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-07T16:09:13Z
dc.date.available2019-11-07T16:09:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description29 pages
dc.description.abstractThis thesis was inspired by my passion for women filmmakers and my curiosity about how a filmmaker’s gender identity informs how women are represented in films. I investigated the complicated history of women’s role in Hollywood to learn why there are few female directors and writers working in Hollywood presently. I examined how the male-dominated film industry affects the representation of women on-screen using the concepts of the male gaze and the Bechdel test. I argued that if men create a distinctly male point of view in their filmmaking, women therefore create a female point of view, also known as the female gaze. I found that having men or women in creative production roles (directing, writing, cinematography, or producing) strongly affects how women in a film are portrayed in Hollywood films. To put theory into practice, I wrote, directed, and edited a short film with a female protagonist and recruited a film crew of all women to help me construct the female gaze.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25010
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectCinema Studiesen_US
dc.subjectFilmen_US
dc.subjectFilmmakeren_US
dc.subjectGazeen_US
dc.subjectMale Gazeen_US
dc.subjectFemale Gazeen_US
dc.titleReframing the Gaze: How Women Filmmakers Influence the Portrayal of Women On-Screen
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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