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Reclaiming Her-Story in Mythology: The Spectrum of Lilith and Women's Sexuality in Queer Cinema

Taylor, Erica Natalie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620314857343559

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2021, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film Studies (Fine Arts).
Scholarship regarding mythic narrative structures use predominately male-centered narratives to analyze male-centered heteronormative films in American popular cinema. In such mythic narratives, women are usually a destination for nurture, or a trophy for the male conqueror. This, in turn, condenses scholarship to analyze films within the structures of male-centered, heteronormative, mythic narratives. Consequently, this leaves women-centered mythic structures vastly understudied and underutilized when analyzing films that pertain to women’s cinema and queer cinema. The objective of my thesis is to infuse women-centered mythology with cinematic discourse. In particular, my thesis seeks to reclaim and reshape the myth of Lilith to be used as a narrative structure to analyze women-centered films in queer cinema in ways that examine both the sexual oppression and sexual pleasure of lesbian sexuality.
Erin Schlumpf, S. (Advisor)
Ofer Eliaz (Committee Member)
Brian Collins (Committee Member)
84 p.
Film Studies; Folklore; Womens Studies
Womens Cinema; Queer Cinema; Womens Sexuality; Lesbian Sexuality; Mythology; Lilith; Feminism; In Between; Rafiki; Pariah; The Half of It; Dyketactics; Multiple Orgasm; The Daughters of Fire

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  • Taylor, E. N. (2021). Reclaiming Her-Story in Mythology: The Spectrum of Lilith and Women's Sexuality in Queer Cinema [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620314857343559

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Taylor, Erica. Reclaiming Her-Story in Mythology: The Spectrum of Lilith and Women's Sexuality in Queer Cinema. 2021. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620314857343559.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Taylor, Erica. "Reclaiming Her-Story in Mythology: The Spectrum of Lilith and Women's Sexuality in Queer Cinema." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620314857343559

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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