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seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com - 12/19/2008

The Bechdel Rule for Movies

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First off, enlarge the above image and read the comic strip. Interesting, no? This was called to my attention by comic critic Tom Crippen at the blog The Hooded Utilitarian . Alison Bechdel is a feminist comic writer/artist who is perhaps best known for her recent memoir Fun Home , though she ...

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The Listening Ear — ... Ed Howard cites Alison Bechdel's rule for movies - 2 women in the film, who talk to one another, about something other than a man. Oshima doesn't come off too well, though he sometimes seems to critique the social patterns that cause this kind of problem, isolation of women from one another etc. Night and Fog in Japan makes an interesting point, a bit accidentally - there are two major women characters, who don't speak to each other and only speak to the crowd about their relationships to the men (to Nozawa, the communist turned journalist who is marrying one of them.) There's ...