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A study of female aggression as represented in Patty Jenkins' fiction film MonsterPaneva, Iva 10 December 2008 (has links)
The film Monster (USA, 2003) is based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, the Florida
prostitute who was one of the few documented female serial killers in the United
States. The scriptwriter and director of the film, Patty Jenkins, surprisingly centered
the film on a love story, instead of assuming the role of judge or advocate towards the
actions of Wuornos. After a flash back sequence that recreates the childhood of Lee
(Charlize Theron), the film opens as Lee meets Selby (Christina Ricci), a young and
immature lesbian in a bar. Lee responds very rudely and defensively to the clumsy
flirtation of Selby, as she does not think of herself as gay and her life as a prostitute
has made her very hostile towards society. However, Lee opens up to Selby, as she
perceives her as her last chance to find Love. Patty Jenkins cinematically evokes
Lee’s hopelessness and despair before meeting Selby in order to emphasize the
importance of this same-sex relationship. For Lee, Selby is the innocent child that she
has to protect and save, a symbol of the child she once was herself. Inspired, she goes
out to work on the highway to earn money for their first date, and a client beats her
unconscious, ties her up, rapes her with a tyre iron and pours petrol over her. Fearing
for her life, Lee shoots him, and then takes his car and wallet. As her relationship with
Selby develops, she enters into the role of provider and protector. After her brutal
encounter, she is scared of the streets and makes an attempt to go straight. However,
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in her attempt to look for a proper job she encounters social rejection and
brutalization. Pressurized by her new girlfriend to provide money, Lee goes back to
prostitution. However, her last traumatic experience with the rapist john makes her
believe that all her clients might turn out to be abusive, which provokes in her a desire
for revenge and killing. Unable to stop, she robs her victims to provide for her
girlfriend and believes that she can identify which clients deserve to die. After the
killing of an innocent man, she is turned over to the police by Selby. Monster is not
about sensationalism, but rather portrays the intimate tragic story of a human being
who became a serial killer, due to a combination of bad social and personal
pathologies. The Meaning of the Form:
The aim of this thesis is to explore the representation of women and aggression in
Patty Jenkins’ film Monster. I will argue that, while the female characters in Monster
do not escape the conventional portrayal of women within the dominant Hollywood
cinema, their portrayal does nonetheless create a ‘non-normative’ representation. By
exploiting the classical narrative and a particular model of representation of women,
Jenkins creates a cinematic text which attacks the patriarchal principles grounding the
model. Therefore, the main argument of this thesis will be that Jenkins uses the
Hollywood system of narration and representation of women in order to subvert and
criticize it. Ultimately she is using the film as means to critique the patriarchal
violence within American society itself. In order to substantiate my argument, I will first look at the conventional
representation of women in fiction-film genre1, and will then investigate how the
performance of aggression is constructed within the film. The film represents
aggression as a social phenomenon that develops into a pathological behavior. By
establishing the history of the general phenomenon of female aggression, I will
examine its specific representation in my film case study Monster. Although the film
introduces different female characters that each have their particular expression of
aggression and representation, the primary focus of analysis will be Lee, the main
character of the film.
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Live GhostsIreland, Patricia Anne 01 May 2010 (has links)
In Live Ghosts, Patricia (Patty) Ireland offers a gathering of short stories based upon real life characters she encountered while growing up in the South. Exploring the diversity, complexity and moral ambiguity of those we might normally perceive as being stereotypically “Southern,” Ireland’s tales encompass a variety of time periods, settings, and characters, including: a modern-day family struggling to reconcile the reality of death, interracial lovers in the early 1950’s who are descended from masters and slaves, and an insane killer locked for life in a mental institution of the 1990’s. Live Ghosts is infused with tales of fear, love, loss, regret, madness, and self discovery, themes intrinsic not only to Southern culture, but to the universal vulnerability in all of us.
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Patty Hearst: A Media Heiress Caught in Media SpectacleBodi, Anna E 01 January 2013 (has links)
In 1974, decades before foreign terrorists became a fixture in the American consciousness, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), an American domestic terrorist group, abducted nineteen-year-old media heiress Patricia (Patty) Hearst. The abduction kicked off a four decade multi-faceted media spectacle. The media and public raptly followed Hearst’s imprisonment as a hostage, apparent conversion to SLA revolutionary and criminal, eventual rescue and arrest, trial and conviction, presidential pardon, marriage to her bodyguard, half-hearted career as an actress, and ultimate withdrawal from the public eye. Along the way, the media portrayal of Hearst twisted and turned. She was the heiress, the hostage, the criminal, the victim, depending on the moment in time. The varying depictions of Hearst reflected evolving events, but also specific images of Hearst that captured the attention of the American public and the media. Resonant images of Hearst from her kidnapping, arrest, trial, and release – spanning the five years from 1974 to 1979 – demonstrate that the heiress’s case became a magnification of American anxieties of the time concerning celebrity, feminism and gender, the radicalization of youth, and terrorism. In a time dominated by print, radio, and television media, Hearst’s portrayal showcased the media spectacle as cultural parable for a controversial time.
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Live GhostsIreland, Patricia Anne 01 May 2010 (has links)
In Live Ghosts, Patricia (Patty) Ireland offers a gathering of short stories based upon real life characters she encountered while growing up in the South. Exploring the diversity, complexity and moral ambiguity of those we might normally perceive as being stereotypically “Southern,” Ireland’s tales encompass a variety of time periods, settings, and characters, including: a modern-day family struggling to reconcile the reality of death, interracial lovers in the early 1950’s who are descended from masters and slaves, and an insane killer locked for life in a mental institution of the 1990’s. Live Ghosts is infused with tales of fear, love, loss, regret, madness, and self discovery, themes intrinsic not only to Southern culture, but to the universal vulnerability in all of us.
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Geophysical methods : a case study at the Patty Ann Farms Site 12H1169Wyatt, Jennifer C. 24 January 2012 (has links)
The goal of this thesis research is to examine the Patty Ann Farms site using noninvasive techniques, such as a magnetic gradiometer. The Patty Ann Farms site, 12H1169, located in northeastern Hamilton County Indiana, is a multicomponent archaeological site spanning all periods of prehistory. Diagnostic artifacts from the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Woodland periods have been surface collected by the land owner. The land owner’s collection was documented, and the site was recorded at the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology--Department of Natural Resources, in 2004. Since then, a controlled surface survey has been conducted identifying three areas of high artifact density and preliminary soil phosphate tests have been conducted. / Department of Anthropology
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A pedagogy of one's own bricolage, differential consciousness, and identity in the translexic space of women's studies, theatre, and early childhood education /Howard, Rebecca. January 2010 (has links)
Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-184).
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Between Liminality and Transgression: Experimental Voice in Avant-Garde PerformanceJohnston, Emma Anne January 2014 (has links)
This thesis explores the notion of ‘experimental voice’ in avant-garde performance, in the way it transgresses conventional forms of vocal expression as a means of both extending and enhancing the expressive capabilities of the voice, and reframing the social and political contexts in which these voices are heard. I examine these avant-garde voices in relation to three different liminal contexts in which the voice plays a central role: in ritual vocal expressions, such as Greek lament and Māori karanga, where the voice forms a bridge between the living and the dead; in electroacoustic music and film, where the voice is dissociated from its source body and can be heard to resound somewhere between human and machine; and from a psychoanalytic perspective, where the voice may bring to consciousness the repressed fears and desires of the unconscious.
The liminal phase of ritual performance is a time of inherent possibility, where the usual social structures are inverted or subverted, but the liminal is ultimately temporary and conservative. Victor Turner suggests the concept of the ‘liminoid’ as a more transgressive alternative to the liminal, allowing for permanent and lasting social change. It may be in the liminoid realm of avant-garde performance that voices can be reimagined inside the frame of performance, as a means of exploring new forms of expression in life.
This thesis comes out of my own experience as a performer and is informed both by theoretical discourse and practical experimentation in the theatre. Exploring the voice as a liminal, transgressive force requires analysis from an experiential perspective.
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A Pedagogy of One’s Own: Bricolage, Differential Consciousness, and Identity in the Translexic Space of Women’s Studies, Theatre, and Early Childhood EducationHoward, Rebecca 27 April 2010 (has links)
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