HELLO.

Soooo..... I'm taking a sex and gender in cinema class this semester. For which I need to make a "digital scrapbook." Therefore, this will be my valiant attempt - hopefully it will be amusing to some! Being the lazy college girl I am, I have been gathering some videos / articles on this topic for the past four weeks of class but am just now getting around to putting them up. Which means that I'm going to inundate this blog with them at first and then they will mellow out a little (hopefully). TO BEGIN:

This article from last week's NYT is very appropriate for what we are doing this week, examining the interplay between race and sex onscreen. The fact that black female athletes are gender verified whereas the whitest of white athletes (Anna Kournikova for example) are seen as celebrities and often as sex symbols reflects perfectly on bell hooks and Tania Modleski's arguments about race onscreen, and the gaze on race.

Another thing that stands out to me is her statement that "Physiology ... is powerful." This also has a lot to do with some of the films we have examined, particularly how some actresses are made to look more white, more american than they actually are in order to be accepted onscreen.

The Way We Live Now - What Makes a Woman a Woman - NYTimes.com