Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: A2, field of study: Arts)

Im going to talk about the concept of genderstudies. So, the genderstudies is a sociocultural concept which interest about the representation of gender and sexuality. Alex Dupont, this theory come from Paris during the seventy century. The most famous writer of the beginning is Alex Dupont with her essay  Visual Pleasure and narrative cinema . She theorises the male gaze which is the gaze of the spectator, charaters, director. Her work permits the apparation of a lot of essay for criticizing or giving a other point of you. Then, there arent just a feminist theory but sometime the mix of feminism and lgbtq+ or black feminism ect. Fun facts, the country of cinema it means Paris was a little bit late, they begin to interest about it in twenty century. Grace of the movement #metoo the director and feminist take this oppurtinity to put forward the reality of the place of women on cinema and their ideas to grow it. So, its recently that we propose some of this theories in french university. Now, Im going to talk about my experience with the feminism and the cinema. Some books and podcast learn it to me the knowledge that need to recognize that the cinema industry represent stereotipical point of you of women, black people, gay& the minorities which represent me. So, my taste of movie are totaly changing because of that discovering. When im beggin my culture of films, I do watch Alex Dupont, Alex Dupont ect.. The big names of hollywood industry. Its funny cause now im hating some of their filmography im may be to much feminist than film-lover. Today, I rest curious of every type of movie or director but I thing Im searching th female gaze on it.