gender

The Messenger's Positive Message About Women

A few days ago I blogged about the film Avatar and how it reinforced gender stereotypes and dominant ideas about body images. I also saw this week a very different sort of film, one that I was pleased to see presented a much more realistic and healthy idea of what female bodies can be like, in addition to a more realistic vision of male/female relationships..  This sort of thing is so rare in the film world that I just have to mention it.

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Tall Blue Hot Nature-Mama Barbie Dolls Who Sway Their Hips and Kick Ass

I was unsure, for several weeks, whether I wanted to go see the film "Avatar."  The concept was interesting, but given that it was James Cameron directing, and something like the most expensive film ever made, I was expecting it would have problems.  Not to mention that action movies appeal less and less to me these days, mainly because the cinematography for them, in general, has been steadily ramping up to a level of intensity that way too much for my nervous sys

On The Edge podcast - Part Two: The Violence of Poverty

Ranco Anapra, Juarez, photo by Peter Foxwell

This is the second installment of a new podcast consisting of the different sections of "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez", a film I finished in 2006. This is the first time the entire film will be viewable online. Every Monday for the next several weeks I will post another section of the film. (To subscribe to the podcast, click here.)

This section is about poverty and its connection to violence. The next section, available next week, is about negligence.

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