Week 10

Question 1

Denial of the existence of certain thoughts or feelings or the stifling of alterative gender identities or sexual orientations.

Answer 1

Repression

Question 2

social pressures, status quo.

Answer 2

Repression: External

Question 3

thoughts, desires, unconscious. Ex. Brokeback Mountain, Nightmare on Elm Street. Monsters as queerness.

Answer 3

Repression: Internal

Question 4

The conversion of a basic drive, such as sexual desire, into a non-overty sexual form.

Answer 4

Sublimation

Question 5

Displacement, socially productive. Internal thoughts.

Answer 5

Sublimation

Question 6

Industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most US motions pictures released by major studios from 1930-1968.

Answer 6

Motion Picture Production Code

Question 7

Included the prohibition of scenes containing white slavery, interracial sex, childbirth, man and woman in bed, sexual perversions (Ex. Homosexuality).

Answer 7

Motion Picture Production Code

Question 8

Forms of sexual behavior that might be considered strange, unpleasant or distasteful.

Answer 8

Sexual Perversions

Question 9

Threat to the dominant norm. Occur most often with men in film.

Answer 9

Sexual Perversions

Question 10

Women usually suffer the brunt of these perversions.

Answer 10

Sexual Perversions

Question 11

Looking without being seen/sexual pleasure/ replaces physical contact.

Answer 11

Voyeurism

Question 12

Inequality of the gazes.

Answer 12

Voyeurism

Question 13

Male voyeur in control.

Answer 13

Voyeurism

Question 14

Female is unaware, objectified, powerless. Ex. Slasher movies.

Answer 14

Voyeurism

Question 15

Emotional overinvestment where the fetish object is overvalued because of the meanings or needs projected onto it.

Answer 15

Fetishism

Question 16

Commodities have magical powers (Marx).

Answer 16

Fetishism

Question 17

serves as a projection of the males fantasy of female perfection without seeing the real person.

Answer 17

Fetishism

Question 18

Men may punish the woman trapped beneath the image that is not her own making when she fails to meet the image.

Answer 18

Sadism

Question 19

Compliant subordination of men who forego male privilege for the pleasure of submission.

Answer 19

Masochism

Question 20

Relationship between what the characters see and what the audience sees.

Answer 20

Looking Relations

Question 21

Gaze of camera often aligns with male characters as a way to reinforce gender hierarchy (ie. who gets to look at whom and under what conditions).

Answer 21

Looking Relations

Question 22

Not just about positive representation but considers the dynamics of the gaze.

Answer 22

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Style, Laura Mulvey

Question 23

The gaze controlled by men, women the object of the gaze. Objectification.

Answer 23

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Style, Laura Mulvey

Question 24

The be-all and end-all of a womens life. Nurturing, caring, intimate, will do anything for the good of her children.

Answer 24

Stereotypes: The Mother

Question 25

In contrast to the loyal wife, draws in unsuspecting men with her sexual allure.

Answer 25

Stereotypes: Seductress/Vamp/Femme Fatale

Question 26

Uses seduction as a means for independence or liberation. Dangerous sexuality.

Answer 26

Stereotypes: Seductress/Vamp/Femme Fatale

Question 27

Praying mantis trope. | Ex. Jennifer’s Body

Answer 27

Stereotypes: Seductress/Vamp/Femme Fatale

Question 28

Represents a male projection onto women of profound innocence and vulnerability.

Answer 28

Stereotypes: The Virgin

Question 29

Innocence and obliviousness of her erotic effect on others.

Answer 29

Stereotypes: Dumb Blonde

Question 30

Subordinate position as support for her husband. Associated with domestic space and family life.

Answer 30

Stereotypes: The Wife

Question 31

Prompts the viewer to understand what it feels like to enter a world organized around women’s subjectivity and women as objects of desire by other women.

Answer 31

Lesbian Cinema