Feminist Film/Media
Determining whether or not media is feminist has to do with the way feminist media separates its construction from other non-feminist medias, which usually produce misrepresentations of the subjects within the media. Feminist medias serve as forms to contest these normalized misrepresentations of people by producing medias that do not need to have problematic issues involved with them in order to make the media interesting or entertaining. Feminist media producers recognize these problematic issues within non-feminist media, and adjust their constriction of their media accordingly with a hypercritical eye.
Recognizing media that is absent of problematic issues found in mainstream media such as misrepresentation, voyeuristic gaze, binaries of sex and gender, subject/object relationship, is a form of identifying feminist media.
I do not believe that media needs to be self-identified as feminist in order for it to really be feminist. I think that this can help someone find these medias easier, but it does not prohibit a media from still embodying feminisms. I watched the movie Chocolat the other day for a fist time in a while. While watching it, I realized that it has many feminist qualities within it, ones that perhaps I would have not been able to identify alone before this class.