1) What are the two texts the article focuses on? - Pan Am - Beyoncé 2) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? Pan Am - It is interesting to note that this first image of the Pan Am stewardesses is one which is highly constructed and mediated, an image whose purpose is to be admired and aspired to by women, and visually enjoyed by men . Beyoncé - Particularly in her video "why don't you love me" Beyoncé is presented to be a feminine object who is there for the 'male gaze' and in a similar way Pan Am does it uses the past periods of the 50's and 60's and the clothes they used to wear as costumes in their videos to represent themselves. 3) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? I n my opinion they show that there has been a clear improvement from the past, when there was a clear separation of the sexe s and eve...
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