Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Dec 4, 2009, 6:27 pm
Luc Besson’s film The Fifth Element has an anti-technological bias conveyed in an unusually subtle way. Generally, when a science fiction film is anti-technology, it conveys this by depicting robots...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Nov 30, 2009, 2:13 pm
Shot 1 — Shot 2 — Shot 3 — Shot 4 — Shot 5 Tagged: critique, film studies, movies, sci fi, the fifth element
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Nov 17, 2009, 3:42 pm
In the film The Fifth Element, the world in general and protagonist Korben Dallas’ life in particular are complicated, strange, and dangerous. Life is fast-paced and science-fiction devices abou...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Nov 9, 2009, 8:30 pm
Note: I have no idea when I last posted, nor when I’ll get the chance to again. Turns out I haven’t abandoned you all after all. It’s all over the feminist blogosphere, and until ...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Oct 31, 2009, 10:25 pm
Glancing through our readings the last few weeks, ruminating on the many concepts we’ve discussed in search of a topic, it occurred to me that although Citizen Kane doesn’t follow a quinte...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Oct 9, 2009, 10:10 pm
Identifying as a feminist, it seems, is really quite different from having a working familiarity with feminist film theory! I found myself fascinated by all the new analysis I encountered in  Tania M...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Oct 2, 2009, 10:58 pm
Today, I was telling a friendly acquaintance that I was thinking about going to grad school in film, and getting into movies as a career. Her first response? She asked, “Oh, have you heard abou...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Sep 30, 2009, 9:24 am
I have a post brewing on how I think Lady Gaga might be a lot cooler than I originally thought she was. (Short version: doesn’t the Paparazzi music video seem like a criticism of the sexualized ...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Sep 25, 2009, 5:47 pm
Julie & Julia tells the stories of Julie Powell, a woman who decides to cook through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, and Julia Child, an woman in love with food who ...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Sep 14, 2009, 4:21 am
I only recently discovered that Alan Turing was gay (or, at least, slept with men.) I think I had about five minutes of elation, in which I mentally stood him next to Ada Lovelace in my pantheon of id...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Sep 11, 2009, 9:54 pm
So, I just got the cutest, most misguided troll comment ever: you’reeee alllll gayyyyyyyy Thanks, Aimee, for that fascinating insight! Unfortunately, this blog was “alllll gayyyyyyyy...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Sep 4, 2009, 6:03 pm
(Note to regular readers: this is another film studies post. This assignment was to consider David Bordwell’s Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures in relation to the...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Aug 31, 2009, 12:44 pm
(Note to my regular readers: this is the first of many posts written for my film studies class. In some ways it will be different from my norm, but in other ways I hope you’ll find it interested...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Aug 30, 2009, 8:32 pm
Hey, remember that time when I “re-committed” to the blog and then didn’t post here for months and months? But I kept promising that any day now I’d post a big huge confessiona...
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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Aug 9, 2009, 6:09 pm

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Laura G. posted an article on Gender Goggles - Aug 9, 2009, 1:09 am
Hello dear readers! If any of you are still around, that is. I would like to apologize for how quiet it’s been around here. We haven’t even left a note or anything.  And this note is rath...
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