Are films inherently masculine? – the camera and representation of women as an act of terrorism.

• Main Author: Teo, Katherine Cheng Hoon.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Film theory and criticism
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45190
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The notion of phallogocentric implies that the binary of man/woman will always result in one term being preferred over the other. As Donna Haraway asserts in her essay titled A Manifesto for Cyborgs, “Gender, race or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historical exper...