September 19, 2015
How is one to react to the limiting structures in which society imprisons our methodologies within? How can one go beyond the bureaucracy in which shackles one's processing power to form knowledge?
The history of our modern day media is a result of masculine processing of accessing, representing, and enforcing male interests into values as social conventions which enslave her to man, publicly demonstrating her subordinate position through the use of semiotic relations employed into an audio-visual medium. (De Beauvoir, p. 724) Her natural beauty is exploited to the male gaze while in fact it is the male gaze who is directing and enabling her to promote that beauty. (Ritzer, 2011, p. 482) A feminist take on the philosophy of film theory tautologically suggests that the seductive actress was trained in the methods of arousing men for the profit of men. Thus the appearance of her own autonomy is the real act and her performance is as fake as the characters in which she plays. For now she has a profession in which she can be appreciated by her community for her beauty, but the beauty can only ever stand as an act, its underlying agenda being male orientated. (Korsmeyer, 2004, section 5, paragraph 5)
However, being a woman in society has different sociological connotations than that of being a man. (Mcclary, 1991, chapter 6. section 2, paragraph 6) They remained slaves to men in our past because men did not enable them to educate themselves. To men, their place was on their wall: a painted image of beauty in which is to be possessed by the man. The woman is exploited for her nurturing and submissive nature and dominated by the ‘other sex’. But the charm and pleasure a woman brings to the man cannot be discounted. Because in every weakness is a strength in which can be utilised to practically demonstrate equality. All that must be recognised is the differences within our biology and as a result, its mental and physical processing. Once we can collectively see clearly that each sex or somewhere in between has been distributed half of our human virtues, the dynamics of our relationships will over time change. But this is only possible when the women of the world learn how to utilise their own gifts to obtain their own emancipation which can only be achieved by exploiting the male gaze. The only solution to obtain equality for our species is not to adopt the same oppressive male dominated mass media in which currently exists to oppress women, but instead create a new kind of media in which trumps the value of our current media without conforming to its systematic ideological practices. (Mead, 1934, 21.8) The answer is to be “the snake charmer baby. And you’re also the snake”. (Anderson, 1983).
But the question arises as to what types of methodologies she could utilise to record, produce, and distribute her own films in which deviate from the mainstream practices of society. (Kaplan, 1997, chapter 8, paragraph 6) A portable camera in her hand, a beautiful body, and a developing mind: what she shall record is hers, and only her decision. And if she is to seduce her audience (namely herself) into wisdom, kindness, compassion, tolerance, and equality, how is she to do it? The answer lies in her mind: to utilise her body to captivate the individual audience member into her mind. Her initial impression is her bodily image in which she utilises as the bait to obtain new pets to play with. She is then to win them over with her humour and personality, specifically her intellectual processing in which drives the stories that she creates. Her ability to captivate memories in turn captivates those who show interest in the memories in which she created. Her success relies on her own ability to express meaning through a camera: how well she is able to tell entertaining stories about her own life which will not only educate her audience but also charm them into her personality. For what knowledge she has to learn and share on camera is vital to the evolution of the species. And if others are to hear her words, how shall she construct them? What impact could she have on the macro stratifications of society when she is only one person? The art of sexual appeal gives her all of the necessary resources in order to convey her message exponentially to the public: her goal to educate herself and have fun while doing it! Director of her own life and her story’s heroine: a dramaturgy queen. (Goffman, 1956, p. 60)
Having such capability proposed incurs a moral inheritance. If films can act as both an entertaining medium and as a tool to actively practice philosophical thinking amongst the community, then the social norm of mainstream television is challenged at its core value.
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