COURSE BLOG for GWSS 3307: Feminist Film/Media Studies (Fall 2007)

Internet is the primary media source I use. I rely little on television for viewing films, which is mainly due to the fact we only have the basic cable channels. Back in my hometown of Moorhead we have a “cheap� theater where you can see movies for $1.50, which is how I watch the majority of the Hollywood releases. Granted this theater doesn’t start showing movies until after they have been out for a month or two, but the cheap price is worth the little wait. This allows me to be able to afford to I go to a couple movies every month. However, now that I have moved back to the Cities for school I probably won’t even go to the theater once.

Last semester when I was in Australia for 5 months I solely relied on my computer to watch movies. I had a program there that could download new releases about a week or even less after they came out for free, so I was able to watch pretty much any movie I could possibly think of.

I usually only watch Hollywood films, however there have been a few cases where I have seen some smaller, independent films. I usually only go to theaters, and I do not attend any film festivals or campus screenings.

I don’t really know anyone in my family and I don’t have any friends that are interested in watching smaller produced films. I have grown up only familiarized with Hollywood films, so I believe that is the reason I have not expanded my horizons on the types of films I watch. Hollywood puts so much time and effort into advertising their movies, and I believe they have done a marvelous job of capturing not only my eye, but the rest of the world’s too.