Occupied Territories

This is really interesting and, I think, not at all accidental. It ties into a Mary Anne Doane quote I put up on my Tumblr a while back, which I’ll just quote again here:

Linda Williams demonstrates how, in Muybridge’s contributions to the prehistory of the cinema, the male figure seems more compatible with processes of narrativization than the female figure. While the man comfortably adopts “natural” poses of activity and agency, the “plotting” of the female body is more difficult. Williams outlines the lengths to which Muybridge goes in constructing narrative situations for the woman which are marked by their very lack of familiarity. With respect to narrativization of the woman, the apparatus strains; but the transformation of the woman into spectacle is easy. Through her forced affinity with the iconic, imagistic elements of cinema, the woman is constituted as a resistance or impedance to narrativization.

(Source: fuckyeahfeminists, via testedtruant)