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BY ALEX LEADBEATER JAN 28, 2017 One of the most popular ways to measure how well-balanced a film is in terms of gender representation is the Bechdel Test. Named after Alison Bechdel, the comic artist who created it, it features three simple classifications that surprisingly few movies meet: the movie has to have (1) at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something besides a man. It’s not a perfect measure, but does work as a good metric to see how cinema in general is treating female characters; in 2016, over half of the year’s highest grossing films passed the te...

Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash this fall. Danielle Kranjec The Kranjec Test — named for Danielle Kranjec, the Jewish educator who created it — holds that collections of texts known as source sheets used in Jewish learning must include at least one non-male voice. It’s the Jewish studies equivalent of the well-known Bechdel Test for film, in which movies pass if they include two women having a conversation about something other than men, and it quickly gained cu...

Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire has been voted the best film of 2020 in a poll of UK female and non-binary film critics and commentators. Conducted by Bechdel Test Fest, which champions representation of women and non-binary people in film, the poll surveyed 76 respondents from organisations and publications including international streamer and distributor Mubi, documentary specialist Dogwoof, the Independent Cinema Office (ICO) and the Barbican. Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winner Parasite came in second place while third went to Sarah Gavron’s UK drama Rocks. Of the top 10 tit...

Cost of health insurance down to $300 every two years, have fun with it. >> living with a cracked screen. >> tom: imdb is making it easier to avoid chick flicks. it is labeling all feminist movies with an f rating. thendicates that the movie following criteria, women writer, women director, or it passes the bechdel test. so far 21,800 films received an f, with a few films snagging the elusive triple f. these include "frozen," "bridget jones' diary," and "lisa ann's

I pretty much know "logan" is about wolverine coming out with an album or something. the whole deal with the bechdel test is very silly in a lot of ways, because first of all it was started as a joke. it was started as a cartoon comic with these lesbian comics. "pass this test, it's named after me." the woman who wrote the joke. a lot of movies who are part empowering to women fail this, while a lot of movies don't. "terminator" failed the bechtel test. "showgirls" passes. "terminator" failed the bechdel >> "showgirls" passes. >> tom: they talk abut other stuff. >> nobody can say anything abou...