• Author’s Note: Marie’s microphone was being a bit spotty. We’re sorry!
• Introductions

KNOWING

• A review of the Bechdel Test
• :http://www.dw.de/sex-violenceand-gender-bias-swedish-cinemas-test-the-bechdel/a-17299348 
• http://www.slashfilm.com/infographic-movies-that-passed-the-bechdel-test-made-more-money-in-2013/
• It’s about representation.
• Objections to the test
• More representation gives space for more types of women!

READING

Alien

• “She is the protagonist.”
• Unisex characters addressed by surnames allow us to focus on character rather than gender.
• More on the trope of the Final Girl
• Ripley, clothing, and the male gaze
• http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters
• How much should we gender genre?
• Alien makes Bechdel test history.
• See Prometheus for a more discussion of some of these issues, as well as where theology fits in.

Legally Blonde

• Elle as third-wave heroine
• Third-wave feminism and traditional femininity: more about representation and variety
• Female strength and having something to prove: Where does Elle fit in?
• Treatment of the second wave and the Enid problem
• Lutz and Smith as repeat-offenders where watered-down pop culture feminism is concerned [A/N: The feminist stereotype in House Bunny is Mona, played by a pre-Broke Girls Kat Dennings]
• The connotations of naming and feminist politics

Frozen

• The cultural impact of the Disney Princess brand
• Andy Mooney and marketing for Disney Princesses [Correction: Mooney’s initial idea occurs in 2000, though the brand is established later]
• From passive Princesses and bland Princes to post-Disney Renaissance quasi-empowerment and multiculturalism
• Female community and the Princess brand: cross-generational villainy and death by phallus
• Brave and a response to the trope of the missing mother
• Frozen rewrites the myth of true love’s kiss
• Allegorical readings of Elsa
• “Let it Go”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk
• “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1lDcPm-KRw
• Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-cdIvgBCWY
• http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/does-prince-charming-really-need-to-be-reinvented/282908/

PASSING ON

• http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Flicks-Contemporary-Women-Movies/dp/0415962560
• http://collingarbarino.com/2013/12/19/exploring-dantes-inferno-in-disneys-frozen/
• http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/25/disney-frozen-religious-allegory
• Cabin in the Woods
• Brave
• The Paper Bag Princess