Image by Jenn and Tony Bot via FlickrYep, I'm way behind in my postings. I did all the journal entries direct to our course page, and I forgot to post them here. I'll try to do better from now on.Today I'm getting ready for a conference tomorrow with Dr. Toffee about our big assignment (25% of the course grade). My draft is a mess. (It's happening again-- Zemanta just put up a bunch of pictures and articles having to do with mental health. I must really sound nuts to them). So anyway, the assignment is to analyze a scene from a film using what she calls a "critical model." I picked the film Bewitched, and I'm using gender studies as my model. I'm pretty excited about it, because I found a bunch of things in my scene that contradict everything that was in the movie reviews I read about it.
But I'm still not happy with my thesis, and I hope she can help me out. The one thing I came up with has more to do with what everybody thinks a female character has to be in order to be true to the women's movement than it does with the film. All the reviewers thought that the witch character was a throwback to the 1950s because she wasn't a "strong" woman, meaning, I guess, that she wasn't forceful and ambitious. What she wanted was the average kind of life you see on TV. A nice home, a nice husband, a nice career, and so on. When things don't work out that way, she takes action, which is exactly what she should do -- why should she throw her weight around when everything is going fine? Anyway, I'll let you know how it turns out.
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