It also leads them to be desensitized to the victimization of girls and women in real life, and it translates into an increased tolerance for sexual violence and harassment. Also, this film brings up something that I have noticed is a key point for a lot of people, which is: Is self-objectification empowering? Studies have shown that teenage girls and young women who self-sexualize or self-objectify have higher levels of body surveillance and body shame. But if you look at the camera in “Hustlers,” most of the shots in the strip club have the men foregrounded so that we understand that is being looked at. It’s not that I’m completely free of it, but I’m more free of it.Ī: “Hustlers,” we have these women who are supposedly self-empowering through their own self-objectification. And yet sitting there for two years and reviewing 600 film clips and putting them together one after the other, was like, “Oh my God.” This poison has been sitting in my blood. So, you’re talking about a person, myself, who is very well aware of all these issues, has made films that confront these issues, has felt on my skin the oppression of all of this. So, I was looking for clips to show my students, and that’s how the lecture developed, how the film developed. The production students never read film theory, and the film theory people generally don’t make movies. And then I was like, “Okay, I’ve got to take this to my production students,” because there’s very often a split, I find. And later, after three or four films, I did get introduced to Judith Butler and Laura Mulvey and bell hooks and all these great people who helped me articulate what I was feeling. A: My early films were automatically confronting that so-called male gaze way of filming intuitively, from very early.
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