Essays about: "femme"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word femme.

  1. 1. The Femme Fatale: An Analysis of the Archetype’s Remediation From Visual Arts to TikTok

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Elias Wilmenius Hillman; Rebecka Linde Wåhlberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Femme Fatale; Remediation; TikTok; Visual Arts; Archetypes; Male Gaze; Performativity;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate how cultural symbols are influenced during their remediation to social media platforms. As a case to explore this, this study delves into an examination of the remediation of the Femme Fatale archetype from the visual art tradition to the social media platform TikTok. READ MORE

  3. 2. A/Wakening, Healing and Caring in the Pandemic borderland(s): theorizing an Emancipating, Pleasurable and Restful Black Femme Form in Gender Studies

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Agnese Noah; [2021]
    Keywords : embodied; emotive; writing; femmebodimotive; femme; black; form; biomythography; choreopoem; intersectionality; rhizomatic; phenomenology; healing; caring; awake; awakening; wake; ocean; sea; queer; texture; borderland; swAfrican;

    Abstract : In this study on form within the field of Gender and Fem(me)inist Studies I build on, and work with, works created by black women and femmes, as well as femmes and women of color to explore their ways of theorizing through form, as well as finding my own, with roots from all the beautiful experiments lived and written about by these folks. As I sketch out these theories and texts and bring them to the Swedish context in which I write I am breaking new ground for research on blackness, femme-inist theory and form as well as methodologies here. READ MORE

  4. 3. “A feminist subversion of fairy tales” : Écriture féminine, gender stereotypes, and the rejection of patriarchy in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber 

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Fjola Murati Kurti; [2021]
    Keywords : Fairy tales; Grimm Brothers; Angela Carter; The Bloody Chamber; patriarchal binary oppositions; patriarchal oppression; Écriture féminine; Hélène Cixous; heroine; femme fatale.;

    Abstract : Fairy tales are usually described as short narratives that end with happily-ever-afters, imposing patriarchal ideologies. The Grimm’s fairy tales serve as the foundation of many other stories which promote stereotypes like woman passiveness, submissive beauty, while men are put on a pedestal for being active and violent at the same time. READ MORE

  5. 4. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Christina Tente; [2020]
    Keywords : voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

    Abstract : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. READ MORE

  6. 5. FEMME: extinct stereotypes

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Claire Bonnet; [2019]
    Keywords : femme; stereotypes; activism; feminism; capitalism; advertising; retrofuturistic; exhibition; museum; hope; 2050; visual culture; graphic design; installation; femininity; gender; visual research; narrative; animation; objects; feminist future;

    Abstract : My research is about stereotypes of women. Responding to scepticism towardsfeminist movements, my degree project aims to challenge the power structure of today’s Western society. How does visual communication play a big role in creating and/or reproducing inequalities? I have created a retro-futuristic exhibition, placed in an imaginary museum. READ MORE