Blog # 4

I have been really interested in Women & Gender Studies since I took that class about the 60s. I would like to pursue it as a minor possibly in the future if I have time to. I am a Film & Video Studies major right now. I'm not completely sure what I want to do with that. I love cinematography and I am taking a class called Single Camera Production now so I can try my hand at directing, editing, etc. I'm nervous for my first film, ha. I really would love to take this one class called Women & Film. I've already noticed the ways that gender and sex play big roles in the film industry as well as the department. Film is still, sadly, a male dominated world. It is reflected in many of my film classes... especially in my camera production class where the guy-girl ratio is 14-2. Sad. I hope to help the image of women in film and as modern, thoughtful filmmakers. Also, I don't want to make romantic comedies! ha. I've always loved film but I really fell in love with it once I got more into photography and just learning how the camera works... how reality is depicted on camera. So interesting to me. There has been a lot of stereotypes of women in film history... specifically the 'femme fatale' and the classic dynamic of madonna vs the whore. Since the silent film era, strong, smart women are shown as evil and no good. That's really bothered me. Also the fact that most of those femme fatale characters are killed off. I hope to show women on the big screen how they really are.