Question
In a film often called a “manifesto on the female” type of this concept, a noblewoman asks her lover, “If you look at me, who do I look at?” while sitting for her wedding portrait. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this concept whose “male” form was discussed in Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” as reducing women to sexual objects for the male heterosexual viewer.
ANSWER: gaze [accept male gaze or female gaze; accept regard masculin or regard féminin]
[10m] This 2019 film by Céline Sciamma (“SYAH-mah”) has been called a “manifesto on the female gaze” for its depiction of the romance between the noblewoman Héloïse (“ay-lo-EEZ”) and the painter Marianne.
ANSWER: Portrait of a Lady on Fire [or Portrait de la jeune fille en feu]
[10h] In one scene, Marianne asks Héloïse and Sophie to pose by a fireplace and recreate one of these events. That scene is based on a musing that no museum features a work about a “studio” for these events from the 2000 memoir Happening.
ANSWER: abortions [accept avortements; accept descriptions of terminating a pregnancy; prompt on operations or surgeries; reject “miscarriages” or “births”] (Happening is by Annie Ernaux.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| Texas A | Appalachian State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa A | UBC A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Sorbonne | Texas A&M B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Texas A&M A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UW A | Iowa B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |