Her (2013): Bodiless Feminism
Spike Jonze's Her (2013) depicts a romantic relationship between a human being, Theodore, and a Operating System, Samantha. What does Samantha's lack of a body mean for her race, gender, and sexuality? Is this problematic or liberating to feminism?
Music:
The Sleepwalker
Divorce Papers
by Arcade Fire.
Sources:
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
Dialectics of Sex, Shulamith Firestone
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey
Special shoutout to Nerdwriter1 at / @nerdwriter1 for inspiring me to make a video essay!