Stavros
11-07-2013, 11:40 AM
The 'Bechdel test' in Sweden has been devised to identify films with a gender bias:
Four cinemas in the country started applying the Bechdel test, which asks if there are at least two women in a film or a work of fiction who talk to each other about subjects other than men, to films last month. The test is named after Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist who introduced the criteria in her cartoon, Dykes to Watch Out For.
Could this work for transgendered characters? What would it be called? Do all transgendered characters in films talk about men rather than other subjects?
Suggestions welcome.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10430135/Swedish-cinemas-launch-feminist-film-ratings.html
Four cinemas in the country started applying the Bechdel test, which asks if there are at least two women in a film or a work of fiction who talk to each other about subjects other than men, to films last month. The test is named after Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist who introduced the criteria in her cartoon, Dykes to Watch Out For.
Could this work for transgendered characters? What would it be called? Do all transgendered characters in films talk about men rather than other subjects?
Suggestions welcome.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10430135/Swedish-cinemas-launch-feminist-film-ratings.html