我们能不能不要只谈论男人?两部马来电影的贝克德尔检验、叙事突出性与女性声音

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J. Aziz, Fuzirah Hashim, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor
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西方女权主义电影学者声称,女性角色通常被定义为与男性角色相关的角色,这在当代电影和性别研究中得到了很好的共鸣。这一说法强调了将男性特权和首要地位作为可见能指的代表性偏见;这种偏见的后果是女性主体性的不可见性,使她们无法发声。因此,探究好莱坞语境之外的电影中的女性主体性是至关重要的。本文旨在通过对马来西亚两种类型的电影——爱情片和恐怖片中女性角色的表现进行识别和比较,以突出女性声音与女性意识和赋权之间的一致性。本研究对两部采用标准抽样选择的电影——《3 Temujanji》和《Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam》进行了贝克德尔检验,并提出了一种新的方法,即使用叙事显著性的概念对电影进行分析。两种方法的分析结果相互矛盾。铁木janji虽然没有通过大部分的测试,但通过叙述的突出性揭示了她对女性意识和赋权的孜孜追求。而通过测试的《Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam》则在意识形态上讽刺性地包含了男权价值体系中的女性声音。这一发现有助于形成一个理论,即马来西亚电影中的女性声音可以被视为电影声学记录的一个组成部分,从而提高电影分析技术。编剧和电影制作人可以利用这个测试作为参考,让女性定义自己“与男性无关”,同时创造出逐渐超越父权制和男权主义的女性角色。关键词:女性赋权、马来电影、声域、叙事突出性、好莱坞
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Can We Not Just Talk About Men? The Bechdel Test, Narrative Salience and Female Voices in Two Selected Malay Films
Western feminist film scholars’ claim that female characters are often defined in relation to their male counterparts resonates well in contemporary film and gender studies. This claim highlights the representational biases towards male privilege and primacy as visible signifiers; the ramification of this biasness is the invisibility of female subjectivity that renders them voiceless. Therefore, inquiries into female subjectivity in films outside of Hollywood context are crucial. This paper aims at identifying and comparing the representation of female characters in two Malaysian films of two genres - romance and horror - to highlight the consonance between female voice with feminine consciousness and empowerment. This study administers the Bechdel Test on two films selected using criterion sampling - 3 Temujanji and Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam - and suggests a novel approach by adding the analysis of the film using the concept of narrative salience. The analyses using both methods revealed contradictory results. 3 Temujanji, although failed most of the test, is revealed through narrative salience as assiduous towards feminine consciousness and empowerment. Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, which passed the test, ironically and ideologically contained female voices within the patriarchal value system. The finding contributes towards the theorisation that women's voices in Malaysian films can be considered as an integral part of the acoustic register of films that enhances film analysis technique. Scriptwriters and filmmakers can utilise the test as a reference in which women can define themselves 'not in relation to men', while creating female characters who progressively think beyond patriarchy and androcentrism. Keywords: Women empowerment, Malay films, acoustic register, narrative salience, Hollywood.
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期刊介绍: All scholars are invited to submit manuscripts to Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication. This journal provides a forum for empirical inquiries on human and mass communication and welcome conceptual, philosophical and theoretical essays or debates, book reviews and essay reviews directly contributing to communication or indirectly affecting it as a discipline. We suggest the following broad areas of research: -Communication and Policies -Globalization and Social Impact -Youth and Media Globalisation -Audience Analysis -Media, Democracy and Integration -Media Literacy and Media Education -Media and Development -Health Communication -Politics, Hegemony and the Media -ICT and Power -Gender and Sexuality in The Media -Social Media and Subcultures -Media, Popular Culture and Society -Media and Religion -Media and Identity -War, Conflict and Crisis Communication -Strategic Communication and Information Management
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