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		<title>A little about violence against women: Watchmen and beyond</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both films contain rape content (The Last House on the Left is about vengeance resulting from the act), but Watchmen presents this violence without a caveat. Instead, the film justifies the rape by (I'm told) making the Comedian repentant and by (I'm told, although it's also obvious) structuring the story so that Silk Spectre's heir apparent is conceived during the Comedian's successful, albeit violent, conquest. The movie should have shown the rape and not just its unsuccessful precursor. And it should have condemned the violence. Instead, it delights in violence of all kinds. A pedophile therein doesn't just kill a little girl...he leaves her bones to be chewed on by dogs. Isn't the first half of that thought horrific enough on its own? Why must it be compounded?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=499&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fem&#8217;s &#8220;Top Ten&#8221; (American narrative feature films)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I can't come up with an annual "top ten" movies, I start thinking about a larger list: top American narrative feature films of all time. The American Film Institute (AFI) has a comprehensive list, often referred to as the "definitive" list, circa 1998 and revamped in 2007. I would charge myself with writing a feminist rebuttal, but there certainly aren't 100 female-centered films of sufficient calabre to make for a serious argument. That - in and of itself - is the argument... The reason for compiling a list of this type is to encourage people to view and discuss these works. (There's certainly more that can be written about each one of these films.) AFI wants you to watch and consider Citizen Kane and Raging Bull, etc. As a feminist film critic, I want you to see these and other motion pictures with an open mind. With so few feminist film critics working in the mainstream media, you may not have considered these and other films in this way before. Maybe you have and perhaps you even have ideas about other films that warrant a fresh look at the way they too challenge phallocentrism in cinema. The more we watch and the more we raise our voices in forums like this, the more chance there is of changing the way Hollywood understands and portrays women, and the more plentiful the opportunities for women as creators of cinema will become.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=309&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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