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Sexuality through different media: Detroit as its backdrop :
Representation of Women
• Book centers around an ex-cop, August Snow who is trying to solve the murder of Eleanor Paget the book eventually centers this crime around Vivian the daughter of Mayfield Eleanor’s confidant, Vivian is a victim of rape (childhood) and still deals with those emotional and mental scars she killed her rapist and eventually kills a man in her home who was trying to kill her.
August Snow represents women as secondary players in their lives, with the exception Agent O'Donnell and Colleen (Vivian's girlfriend). Eleanor Paget was a rich older white women who needed the help of August numerous times, Vivian suffered from the emotional scars of an abusive childhood.
• This books centers around Dune, an out lesbian woman of color whose mother was the first to die from h-8 syndrome. She is left alone to care for her grandmother who has not spoken a word since the passing of her son (Dune’s father). Dune is left to feel abandoned by everyone around her and by the city that claims to want to cure this disease.
Through the story Dune must face the realities of the world, her world, she is alone and faced with a grandmother who according to her ex would never accept her for who she is even when her grandmother did speak. Dune must learn to become strong and independent and rely on herself.
Shapeshifters Article
deals with deviant sexuality and the implications a black womens sexual orientation has on the way they are treated and the services they receive.
Robocop is a story that centers around officer Murphy who is new to Detroit. The DPD is on the verge of a strike as they are managed by a private company who has their own agenda. Murphy is killed in the line of duty and because of the contracts they have signed is made into this part man part machine Robocop.
Officer Lewis is Murphy's partner, at the beginning of the film she as portrayed as a strong female character roughing up a male convict. As the movie progresses Lewis is turned into the Damsel in Distress she is quickly knocked out by the criminals she and Murphy are chasing, she is injured later in the movie and relies on Robocop to save her. She is also given a maternal role to Robocop often trying to help him remember who he was.
The Crow centers around Eric Draven who, along with his lover, is killed when they start a petition against the slumlord and tearing down of their apartment building. Draven comes back as the crow who is hell bent on seeking revenge on those who destroyed his life.
The women in this movie play an important role as different archetypes. Myca is of the main villains and represents deviant behavior, she's evil and allegedly with her brother in a romantic sense; Shelly (Dravens fiancé) represents love and loss and in a way a martyr as she is raped and killed on the eve of her wedding to Draven but died because she fought against the evils as she saw them; Sarah, the young girl Shelly took care of, represents innocents and loss of it, she is too young to go through loss and to be left alone in the streets of Detroit yet she is; Darla (Sarah's real mom) represents the harlot, a woman addict to drugs and abandons her role as a mother to Sarah (until the Crow shows her the error of her ways)
It Follows deals with a supernatural STD, a curse that will kill you if you don't have sex with another person to pass it on. The movie itself deals with various themes but plays an important role in discussing social norms
Slow Burn: Dreadful Kinship and the Weirdness
of Heteronormativity in It Follows:
the film observes the societal norms around sexuality and the patriarchy, one of the reasons queer characters are absent from the film. It uses the back drops of abandoned buildings and 8 mile and the abandoned suburban homes to wash away the senses of wealth versus poverty in Detroit. The relationships are very much heteronormative they in a way can say the curse is sleeping
No Sudden Move takes place in Detroit in the 50's. Many of its plot points are connected to the history of Detroit incorporating racial issues, wealth gap issues, the big 4 motor companies who helped shape the landscape of Detroit.
There is a specific character in the movie Vanessa Capelli who is married to one of the mobsters in charge but with the man hired to do a job that could kill him. In the 50's women were not allowed to have autonomy, they couldn't even have a credit card so they relied much on their husbands we see it in Vanessa and in Mary Wertz ( a character in the beginning of the film. what is interesting about Vanessa is how she tries to get what she wants, she kills her husband to be rid of his abusive ways and then her lover once she gets the money he stole.
With the backdrop as the abandoned streets of Detroit suburbs this film deals with the oppression of women. The "Monster" of the film is actually a victim of kidnapping who had been forced for decades to live in the basement of this now AirBnB. Our main character and heroin is forced to fight her way out of this home and is constantly thwarted by men
Themes of various Medias
Duality
Wealth/Poverty
right/wrong
honorable/corruption
justice/injustice
Redemption
Shame
Familial Shame
Corporate Greed
Isolation
Humanity
Love
Community
LGBTQ Themed