The Gaze: Women in Media

Following on fron The Gaze seminar I thought I'd look on the opposite side of the coin and look at women who kind of defied cultural norms and went against the expected perceptions of being just objects of desire who were weak and passive. Sometimes some examples which I'll show in a way kind of embraced this but took it forward.Ellen Ripley (1979-)Alien movie series. Assertive figure.Ripley is first introduced in Alien in 1979. She played a...

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The Gaze: Seminar

 adsThe way women were portrayed.Hans Memling "Vanity" 1485Idea of looking at her without her looking back. Objectifying women. The women's on display for our viewing pleasure.Objectifying "Students not individuals." "A blonde not a person." Feminism.Reciprocity, giving and taking. Unbalanced. Fundamentally about power.Allowed to look without being looked at. Gaze upon without being gazed upon. She's vain. "She's kind of asking for it"Men would...

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Thinking With Type

Source: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/letter/Some information for myself, to educate me on type, an area I really want to investigate this year and also for Graham's type sessions. The sourced article was very educational and I plan on reading over this regularly till it's engraved in my brain.Some notes:OVERHANG - Curved letters often hang a little bit lower than the baseline, as do commas and semi-colons. If they sat on the baseline...

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