Women in Film - The Dell Test

Women in film, very much up to this day, are meant to occupy only passive roles. They are meant to accompany men, to be looked at, not heard. These dynamics that we see on screen, where women occupy passive roles in men active roles, is mirrored in everyday life. Women are expected to take on certain passive roles in work life, in home life and even when they do sume active rules, those rules are erase. So by using psychoanalysis on the film, mulvey gives us a way to understand our world. Andi touch upon that in the essay. But there are also critiques of mulve by certain critical race scholars who say: There are these patriarchal configurations