The Silence of the Lamb (1991)
A. The extract uses the idea of male gaze. Women are generally seen as passive and soft. In this extract, it shows a women doing "male activities" that you wouldn't see so often because it's mostly a male dominant thing to do exercise and train on an obstacle course making which male gaze is removed.
B. The extract does not reinforce the idea of the female body as a spectacle, it shows that the women is doing completely fine but doesn't get recognized for what's she does. She is among the rest of the men and follows no potential power at all. But it's to give power to the female audience that women can do men activities without natural talent.
C. The woman in the extract is shown to be doing exercise and work in a science building. The men are shown to be taller and bigger than her which shows that she is still dominant but still lacks power and popularity for what she's doing. No man questioned that she does manly activities meaning that women are somewhat common for those types of actions.
D. The woman is doing the most active representation, taking on men's active roles. The passive representation would show that she is isolated when in a man's world, she is mostly seen as the only women when walking around the FBI headquarters which is most seen when she goes into the elevator. She also receives slight glances for what she's a outlier, she also doesn't speak much as she follows orders from men like she's being moved around.
E. The extract is supporting subversive female representation, women are supposed to look like queens of beauty, but she is shown be sweaty, have messy hair, and have a fair manner when talking to men. Meaning that this main character is not based on her looks but mainly her character and actions.
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