Episode 3 - Television? More like Male-vision

Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruoglu talk about gender and representation issues in TV production - and in the writer's rooms. Shows like The Queen’s Gambit and Indian Matchmaking are put under the microscope. Consumer sociologist Carly Drake joins along the way. Notes and reading tips: “The Male Gaze” It was Laura Mulvey who came up with this term, in in the essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (Published in 1975, in the journal Screen - reprinted in the collection “Visual and Other Pleasures” in 1989) The following are some sources if you would like to better understand engagement with and academic trajectories of this term: Sassatelli, R. (2011). Interview with Laura Mulvey: Gender, gaze and technology in film culture. Theory, Culture & Society, 28(5), 123-143. Cooper, B. (2000). “Chick flicks” as feminist texts: The appropriation of the male gaze in Thelma & Louise. Women's Studies in Communication, 23(3), 277-306. Oliver, K. (2017). The male gaze is more relevant, and more dangerous, than ever. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 15(4), 451-455. Benson-Allott, C. (2017). On Platforms: No Such Thing Not Yet: Questioning Television's Female Gaze. Film Quarterly, 71(2), 65-71. Jones, A. (Ed.). (2003). The feminism and visual culture reader. Psychology Press. Indian Feminist Scholars: Mohanty, C.T. (1988) Under Western Eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist Review. 30. 61-88. Mohanty, C.T. (2003) “Under Western Eyes” revisited: Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles. Signs. 28 (2). 499-535. John, M. (2014) Feminist vocabularies in time and space: Perspectives from India. Economic and Political Weekly. 49(22). 121-130. Gender and TV: hooks, b. (2003). The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators. The feminism and visual culture reader, 94-105. Nygaard, T., Lagerwey, J. (2020) Horrible White People: Gender, genre, and television's precarious whiteness. United States: NYU Press. Tuncay Zayer, L., Sredl , K., Parmentier,M. & Coleman, C. (2012) Consumption and gender identity in popular media: Discourses of domesticity, authenticity, and sexuality. Consumption Markets & Culture, 15:4, 333-357. Kandelwal, M. (2009) Arranging Love: Interrogating the vantage point in cross‐border feminism. Signs. 34(3). 583-609. Cavender, G., Bond-Maupin, L. And Jurik, N. C. (1999) ‘The construction of gender in reality crime TV’, Gender & Society, 13(5), pp. 643–663. doi: 10.1177/089124399013005005. D'Acci, Julie. 1994. Defining women: Television and the case of “Cagney and Lacey.” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Green, S. (2019) Fantasy, gender and power in Jessica Jones, Continuum, 33:2, 173-184, DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2019.1569383 General TV: Fiske, John. 1987. Television culture. New York: Routledge Kegan Paul.

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