MaryAnn Johanson is creating film criticism
This needs to be done, and none of my critical colleagues are doing it. So it's on me.
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I’m MaryAnn Johanson: writer and ponderer from New York City now living in London who thinks way too much about such inconsequences as movies, TV, books, and the meaning of life.
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A movie critic quantifies and grades the new films of 2015 on how well they represent half the human race (that is: girls and women).
Where are the women in movies? They're standing aside, even when they're awesome, so that they can support men being even more awesome and saving the world, etc.
If women even get some space in a movie at all, that is.
As a lifelong lover of movies and a film critic with 17+ years experience, I'm pretty damn tired of this. We hear a lot of general chatter about how poorly girls and women are represented on the big screen. Now it's time to quantify it.
Each week, from January through June 2015, I'll be rating and ranking five movies -- Hollywood films, significant indies, flicks we're all talking about -- for their representation of girls and women. Kind of like the Bechdel Test, but bigger and more nuanced.
You can see my rating criteria at FlickFilosopher.com, the online home for my film criticism. Individual movie ratings can be found here. And the list of the year's cinema releases ranked by the score they achieve on my test, from best representation of girls/women to worst, is here. (These ratings are separate from my reviews of the films in question, because how well a movie represents girls or women is a different matter entirely from whether it's a good film or not.)
Even though this issue has recently burst into the pop-culture zeitgeist, no one is doing anything like this nitty-gritty, film-by-film analysis. I think it could be an important new measure of the state of girls and women in film, and hopefully might illuminate and enlighten the specifics of the issue in a way that will inspire individual filmmakers and Hollywood on the whole to up their game.
Enough ongoing support from Patreon pledgers may allow me to continue this project through all of 2015.
Where are the women in movies? They're standing aside, even when they're awesome, so that they can support men being even more awesome and saving the world, etc.
If women even get some space in a movie at all, that is.
As a lifelong lover of movies and a film critic with 17+ years experience, I'm pretty damn tired of this. We hear a lot of general chatter about how poorly girls and women are represented on the big screen. Now it's time to quantify it.
Each week, from January through June 2015, I'll be rating and ranking five movies -- Hollywood films, significant indies, flicks we're all talking about -- for their representation of girls and women. Kind of like the Bechdel Test, but bigger and more nuanced.
You can see my rating criteria at FlickFilosopher.com, the online home for my film criticism. Individual movie ratings can be found here. And the list of the year's cinema releases ranked by the score they achieve on my test, from best representation of girls/women to worst, is here. (These ratings are separate from my reviews of the films in question, because how well a movie represents girls or women is a different matter entirely from whether it's a good film or not.)
Even though this issue has recently burst into the pop-culture zeitgeist, no one is doing anything like this nitty-gritty, film-by-film analysis. I think it could be an important new measure of the state of girls and women in film, and hopefully might illuminate and enlighten the specifics of the issue in a way that will inspire individual filmmakers and Hollywood on the whole to up their game.
Enough ongoing support from Patreon pledgers may allow me to continue this project through all of 2015.