When video games do Lara Croft better than Hollywood can
Video games get a lot of flack — particularly from "higher" forms of media, like film — for their treatment of women.
These criticisms aren't unfounded. As an industry, games have a long way to go and a unique set of challenges before it fixes all the deep-rooted issues with portraying women as tantalizing slabs of meat for men to gawk at.
But it might be time for Hollywood to get off its high horse and reckon with its own pretty abysmal objectification of women.
After all, film was the original medium to spark the term the "male gaze." Coined by feminist critic Laura Mulvey, it describes how shots and camera angles are almost always entrenched in viewing the world (and women in particular) from male perspectives. Read more...
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When video games do Lara Croft better than Hollywood can
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