Think Pieces

What is the true extent of the impact and should we be worried that our movies and TV shows are about to disappear? Also, are celebrities helping or making things worse?

Roman Polanski, David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock. What do all these names have in common? Well, they are all male directors that appear on film studies curriculum. Alongside them is a plethora of recognisable names whose films have subsequently been dubbed classics, but I’ll give you one guess at how many of them are women. 

The Bechdel Test is such a generalised lens through which to view a film that I wonder if we should really be using it in the modern age of feminism.