Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up.
Discussions of Red Riding Hood have focused predominantly on its genre as children's literature, the symbol of the red cloak as sexual awakening amongst others. This paper seeks to shed new light on Red Riding Hood by looking at her as a female instead of a child, and exploring the idea of diso...
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| author | Ng, Calista Bi Qing. |
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| description | Discussions of Red Riding Hood have focused predominantly on its genre as children's literature, the symbol of the red cloak as sexual awakening amongst others. This paper seeks to shed new light on Red Riding Hood by looking at her as a female instead of a child, and exploring the idea of disobedience and desire within the tale, from its early narratives to modern film adaptations. Film was chosen as a medium due to its visual nature, to discuss the notion of the gaze, as well as provide a more accurate depiction of female empowerment today. This paper seeks to explore the idea of disobedience through its constituent elements: knowledge, desire, the male cinematic gaze and the home as a patriarchal construct, and how disobedience is necessary in order for Red to achieve empowerment in a patriarchal society. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/522142019-12-10T12:27:12Z Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. Ng, Calista Bi Qing. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Yong Wern Mei DRNTU::Humanities::Literature Discussions of Red Riding Hood have focused predominantly on its genre as children's literature, the symbol of the red cloak as sexual awakening amongst others. This paper seeks to shed new light on Red Riding Hood by looking at her as a female instead of a child, and exploring the idea of disobedience and desire within the tale, from its early narratives to modern film adaptations. Film was chosen as a medium due to its visual nature, to discuss the notion of the gaze, as well as provide a more accurate depiction of female empowerment today. This paper seeks to explore the idea of disobedience through its constituent elements: knowledge, desire, the male cinematic gaze and the home as a patriarchal construct, and how disobedience is necessary in order for Red to achieve empowerment in a patriarchal society. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-25T04:37:29Z 2013-04-25T04:37:29Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52214 en Nanyang Technological University 39 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities::Literature Ng, Calista Bi Qing. Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. |
| title | Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. |
| title_full | Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. |
| title_fullStr | Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. |
| title_short | Disobedience and desire as female empowerment ; Red Riding Hood grows up. |
| title_sort | disobedience and desire as female empowerment red riding hood grows up |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Literature |
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