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What is the Bechdel Test?

What is the Bechdel Test?

by windyborman | Aug 3, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, Founder's Note, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog

The Bechdel test, also known as the Bechdel–Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. The test is named after American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in whose 1985 comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For the test first appeared. According to...
What is The “Male Gaze”?

What is The “Male Gaze”?

by windyborman | Jul 18, 2016 | Featured Article, Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director

The concept of the “Male Gaze” was first developed by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. “The Male Gaze” is the way visual arts depict the world and women from a...

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