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“There is nothing remotely objective about photography”

July 27, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] (1) The quotation of the title, the photograph at right, and the words below are from Object Lessons, an article by the photojournalist Nina Berman, who also teaches at the Columbia University Journalism School.  The article caught my eye because it features some powerful images and also because, concurrently, I was reading an intriguing Zeteo submission about how news stories fit within long-long-standing narrative traditions (e.g. of parables or moral tales). That said, I turn you over to Professor Berman, from the […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Africa, art, corporations, crime, journalism, photography, women

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The wonderful world of social media

July 25, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I am in Los Angeles this week working on pre-production for a short film I am directing and producing for my MFA. I have been meeting with producer friends who have put me in touch with potential cast and crew and helped me in the location scouting process – while at the same time I have been preparing my crowdfunding campaign so I can launch when I return to NYC. My least favorite part of creating work. Fundraising. Although I […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, social media, women

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All I Want is a Job!

July 22, 2014 by William Eaton

By Moorel Bey Review of All I Want Is A Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System by Mary Gatta (Stanford University Press, 2014) [print_link] [email_link]   The Great Recession that began in 2007 has also been referred to as the “Great Mancession” due to the fact job loss was predominantly in male-dominated fields such as transportation, manufacturing, and construction. At the same time, female-dominated fields, such as education, health services, public administration, and government, saw slight increases in employment. […]

Categories: Review • Tags: jobs, women

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Multiple perspectives

July 18, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Director Rachel Feldman wrote An Open Letter to TV Showrunners this week. It was more than just a plea to television showrunners to hire more women – it was an article chock full of statistics on the lack of women in the industry and full of quotes of why hiring more women matters. She writes: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media has published studies finding that, when woman create media, stereotyping is radically reduced and more female characters appear onscreen. Women […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, women

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On Nakedness and Awkwardness

June 29, 2014 by William Eaton

Toward the end of his seminal chapter on the objectification of women in European painting, in Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger discusses an exception to the rule: Rubens portrait of his second wife, Hélène Fourment: We see her in the act of turning, her fur about to slip off her shoulders. Clearly she will not remain as she is for more than a second. In a superficial sense her image is as instantaneous as a photograph’s. But, in a more […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, male gaze, narrative, Rubens, sexuality, women

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Separate but Unequal: The Sexism in Forcing Women to Play Softball

June 7, 2014 by William Eaton

I can hardly convey the long-awaited validation I felt this morning when I woke up to find Emma Span’s New York Times Op-Ed piece, Is Softball Sexist? In this article she lays out a very articulate explanation of how women were forced out of playing the sport of baseball, and why the option to play softball does not justify that exclusion. As a young girl, I was one of the best players on my co-ed little league team, 95% of which […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: American history, baseball, sexism, softball, sports, women

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Gender in Greek Tragedy

June 7, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I am rereading some of the great Greek plays and playwrights in order to give myself food for thought for my thesis film which is a modern retelling of a famous Greek myth. What struck me when reading Euripides was how gender politics represents itself similarly in a play from around 400 B.C.E. as might be discussed today. In Andromache, the Chorus Leader warns Hermione: You speak too freely against your fellow women – forgivable in you, perhaps, but still, women […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women, writing

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Where Men are Mended

May 27, 2014 by William Eaton

In her poem, “The Stones,” Sylvia Plath opens: “This is the city where men are mended.” She was speaking about hospitals, where people are in fact reconstructed. The eerie way in which the poet described the process of healing makes it clear that she is not nearly as well as she would like.  Below is the full extent of the poem and Plath’s dark descent. Please click here to hear her read the poem herself. The city in the picture that […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, Sylvia Plath, women, writing

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Financial benefits of feminism

May 23, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I read an article by Colin Brown in Slate which focused on the financing of film – Fighting Gender Bias with Data. Opening with a reference to Cannes and Jane Campion (the only woman director to get the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the first woman director to serve as the festival’s Jury President) – the picture is quickly painted that women do not get to play the game the same way that men do:  “You’d have to say there’s […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women

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