This test evaluates the representation of women in films today. Go through your DVD library and see how many of your movies pass the test. I think you'll be surprised by how few do. This video applies the test to some current movies, including some Oscar nominees. The comic strip below is the original Alison Bechdel comic Dykes to Watch Out For featuring "The Rule."
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Adam's Rib (1949)
Alice Adams (1935)
Andrew Britton
Arthur Treacher
Audrey Hepburn
Barbara Stanwyck
Bechdel Test
Bette Davis
Billie Burke
Bob Hope
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bryn Mawr
Buster Keaton
Cary Grant
Cate Blanchett
Cecil Beaton
Celeste Holme
Charlie Chaplin
Charlotte Chandler
Clark Gable
Claudette Colbert
Colin Clive
Communities of Women
Constance Bennett
D.W. Griffith
David Lean
Desk Set (1957)
Diana Rigg
Dick Cavett
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Parker
Edith Head
Edna May Oliver
Elizabeth Taylor
Esther Williams
Eva Marie Saint
Eve Arden
Feminism
Film History
Frank Sinatra
Fred Astaire
Frederick Loewe
Fredi Washington
Gary Cooper
Gene Kelly
Gene Krupa
George Cukor
George Stevens
Ginger Rogers
Gregory La Cava
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Harpo Marx
Harry Potter
Henry Fonda
Holiday (1938)
Hope Williams
Howard Hawks
Howard Hughes
HUAC
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Jeanette MacDonald
Jimmy Stewart
John Ford
John Gielgud
John Huston
John Wayne
Jud Suss
Judy Garland
Julie Andrews
June Allyson
Katharine Houghton Hepburn
Kay Francis
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Laura Mulvey
Lauren Bacall
Laurence Olivier
Libeled Lady (1936)
Lillian Gish
Little Women (1934)
Lon Chaney
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Louis B. Mayer
Louise Beavers
Lucille Ball
Mae West
Maggie Smith
Margaret O'Brien
Marilyn Monroe
Marlene Dietrich
Mary Pickford
Mary Wickes
Maurice Chevalier
Me (autobiography)
Meryl Streep
MGM
Myrna Loy
Persona/Star Text
Peter O'Toole
Philip Barry
polls
RKO Radio Pictures
Rosalind Russell
Rossano Brazzi
Sean Connery
Shirley Temple Black
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Poitier
Spencer Tracy
Stanley Kramer
Summer Under the Stars Blogathon
Susan Ware
Tallulah Bankhead
TCM
The Artist (2011)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Sea of Grass (1947)
The Women (1939)
Vanessa Redgrave
Veit Harlan
Vincente Minelli
Vincente Minnelli
Walter Plunkett
Wendy Hiller
William J. Mann
William Powell
Without Love (1945)
Woman of the Year (1942)
WWII
Zoe Akins

I hadn't seen this, but it's great!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's basically the base theory of everything I've ever written about film!
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