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Gender Studies And Queer Theory In Movies

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The videos presented talk about three different movies, Halloween, Frozen, and 300. The videos use the gender studies and queer theory to criticize the movies. I believe that gender studies and queer theory was used because the videos focus on the genders used in the movies. Also another approach that was used was the feminist criticism.
According to The Norton Introduction to Literature, gender studies “turned to interpretation of the text in ideological context regardless of the sex or intention of the author.” (Mays,1989) In the honest trailer for the movie 300, the video focuses on the movie having nothing but men on it. The review basically focuses on how men were portrayed as having to be muscular and very fit. Throughout the majority of the movie it is also nothing but males, fighting against each other in war. Which is the “normal” thing to see, because if it was girls fighting it would be an unusual scene. The video also uses phrases that can be seen as the author trying to hide his real sexuality, which is what gender studies is also a part of. It is stated in The Norton Introduction to Literature that …show more content…

In the movie Frozen, it has two princesses which we are used to only seeing one in movies. At some point in the movie Elza also becomes the villain which is unusual because she is the princess as well. A regular Disney movie usually just has one princess who falls in love with a prince, but in Frozen neither of them fall in love with a prince, rather only one of the princesses falls in love with a normal resident from where they live. In this video there is also some of the feminist criticism used. Feminist criticism is used because it is two princesses fighting against evil, when usually women are portrayed as weak and are in need of a prince rescuing them. In the movie Ana and Elza are portrayed as independent, strong, and capable of making their own

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