1: Always feel free to refute or argue against an academic's theory 2: In a different sense, you might agree with them, but have consciously chosen to make media language decisions that conflict with their argument ... 3: ... perhaps because you are AWARE of their point! Berger is a great example. He argues that women are framed as passive (and, yes, he also touches on objectification, so you can build an essay by moving on to Mulvey, and acknowledging the link between the two), which you can legitimately argue you consciously strove to avoid (you can denote yourself as a feminist as part of this point).
Lets directly consider your example: Berger famously argued that "men act, women appear" [TIP: focus on single SHORT quotes like this, not multiple which you won't recall in exam conditions]; they lack agency and are framed as passive, secondary characters within narratives. His argument can easily be illustrated by many examples I researched. In ... [some specific EX here]. However, as a feminist film-maker, aware of arguments such as his, I strove to avoid this unconscious dimunition of female characters, and my video is centred on the thoughts and emotions of a female protagonist, including multiple examples of direct gaze, and (one of Goodwin's claimed basic conventions of the format) 'speech' through lipsynching which is denied the other main character, a male. [more to follow...]
1: Always feel free to refute or argue against an academic's theory
ReplyDelete2: In a different sense, you might agree with them, but have consciously chosen to make media language decisions that conflict with their argument ...
3: ... perhaps because you are AWARE of their point!
Berger is a great example. He argues that women are framed as passive (and, yes, he also touches on objectification, so you can build an essay by moving on to Mulvey, and acknowledging the link between the two), which you can legitimately argue you consciously strove to avoid (you can denote yourself as a feminist as part of this point).
Lets directly consider your example:
Berger famously argued that "men act, women appear" [TIP: focus on single SHORT quotes like this, not multiple which you won't recall in exam conditions]; they lack agency and are framed as passive, secondary characters within narratives. His argument can easily be illustrated by many examples I researched. In ... [some specific EX here]. However, as a feminist film-maker, aware of arguments such as his, I strove to avoid this unconscious dimunition of female characters, and my video is centred on the thoughts and emotions of a female protagonist, including multiple examples of direct gaze, and (one of Goodwin's claimed basic conventions of the format) 'speech' through lipsynching which is denied the other main character, a male.
[more to follow...]