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A talk given by The Inquisition at Defuse, on Wednesday 7th November 2012, as part of Designweek in Dublin, Ireland
Nürnburg got ripped to shreds by Bomber Harris’ boys. By how much appears to be open to debate.
The preface to HLA Hart’s publication of his 1961 lecture series on the meeting of law and morality is as prevalent today as it ever was.
There are people out there who pretend to like coffee. Coffee Haters – you have been warned.
False flag, covert ops by Americans against Americans? Sounds crazy, and so it was deemed.
55 years ago Roland Barthes considered the importance of plastic and what it meant, as a substance and a symbol.
Marriage is thought by many to be a fixed rite, one which is immovable and inflexible. The truth is that it has not always seemed so…
Feminist Theory can get pretty serious. But for that matter, working against untold centuries of repression isn’t going to all be fun and games.
Luckily, there is a game which draws attention to questions about the portrayals of women in the wider media. In particular we are discussing film. And men can play it too. Which The Inquisition finds particularly convenient.
The game is the Bechdel Test.
It is a simple game and one which has a surprisingly low number of matches. Films are rated on the basis of three simple questions:
That’s it.
Bibliography
The Bechdel Test site
TV Tropes on the Bechdel Test
A list of films that fail (supposed to be surprising)
Bithch Magazine
Slash Film
This article was posted by Ronan McDonnell on
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at
21:09.
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