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In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.
As one workshop participant, a journalism educator, put it: ‘We’re still telling the same stories, it’s like a circle, and we don’t seem to be able to break free from it. Nothing seems to change.’
Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. So if we all have our own opinions on music, is it ever possible to judge it objectively?
When it comes to our ethical duties to animals, representation and respect should go hand in hoof.
The freedom of the press is important, and of course it must be protected. But the freedom of everybody else and of ordinary citizens is also important.




