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The test has also been referred to as the "Bechdel–Wallace test" [15] (which Bechdel herself prefers), [16] the "Bechdel rule", [17] "Bechdel's law", [18] or the "Mo movie measure". [13] Bechdel credited the idea for the test to a friend and karate training partner, Liz Wallace, whose name appears in the marquee of the strip.
The Bechdel test seeks to measure the gender representation within film and other fiction. The requirements of the Bechdel test [3] are that: A film must have at least two female characters (in some cases it is stipulated that these characters must be named and credited), That these characters have an on-screen conversation with each other,
[94] The New Statesman ' s Laura Sneddon noted that Dredd passed the Bechdel test, lacking in sexism or misogyny and positively portraying female characters who are no weaker, more sexualised or shown less than their male counterparts. Sneddon described Anderson as repeatedly shown to have power over men who underestimate her, while Ma-Ma ...
Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF) was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel.The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one". [1]
Love him or not, Judd Apatow is consistently involved with movies that connect with audiences." [36] Tamara Winfrey-Harris noted in Ms. that, to her "enduring surprise", despite the involvement of Apatow, and themes that had been "done and done and done", the film passed the Bechdel test of female-driven storylines. [37]
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Alison Bechdel (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl; [1] born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For , she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home .
The F-Rating is a rating to highlight women on screen and behind the camera. [1] Developed at Bath Film Festival in 2014, the F-Rating was inspired by the Bechdel Test based on a 1985 cartoon strip [2] by Alison Bechdel, and popularised in the 2010s by Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency blog, and by Ellen Tejle's A-rating [3] in Swedish cinemas. [4]