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Peer Review and Copy Edit
For your first draft, I think you have made good arguments throughout your paragraphs. Including real-life examples from movies is a helpful way you can prove your point! To strengthen your argument, you can include some sources (several scholarly ones to increase your credibility) to back up your arguments. You also have some minor spelling mistakes, but other then that you're good!

I pasted your article's draft below to do the copy edit - the changes I made are in bold.

Film media is a social thermometer that showcases the feelings (the language used should be encyclopedic, maybe you can say "atmosphere" instead) at a time in history. Within modern history, feminist themes in film have become more an (a) more common place. Mad Max: Fury Road (you can add a hyperlink for Mad Max's Wikipedia page so readers can refer to the movie) is a good example of a film that shows feminist film (female empowerment in film). The post-apocoalyptic film starts with the enslavement of the survivors in a fortress named the Citadel. The citizens are severly (severely) deprived of water as the apocalypse has left the world a barren desert. The story line follows that of warrior Imperator Furiosa, who is responsible for driving to a water reseverve (reserve) to get more water for the Citadel. She joins forces with a runaway captive, Max Rockatansky. The two race against the henchmen of the evil dictator of the Citadel, with several thrill racing scenes to create a story line in which females are the heros (heroes) and the main focus.

One of the most important factors to this film that adds to the feminist thought (I'm not sure what the feminist thought is, maybe you can provide some background information) is the fact that Furiousa is aiding the evil dictator's young wives in escaping. She has promised to take them to the "Land of Plenty", which is run by women only. This idea of women being enherently (inherently) good and pure is juxtaposed by men being evil, dirty, and diseased. We can see this motif in the form of costume. The young wives wear white sheets, and the men are covered in dirt and oil. Furiosa blends in by wearing the men's oil and dirt, but inside is pure like the women.

Feminist film is one of a kind a very specific genre.

Caroline Giovanie

Feminism in Film: Feminist Film Theory
Another modern form of media that we can use to express the female experience is Film. Film media is a social thermometer that showcases the feelings at a time in history. Within modern history, feminist themes in film have become more an more common place. Feminist Film Theory was born out of several disciplines of psychoanalysis conjoining with the emerging film industry and the views of sexuality and gender roles. Pioneers in Feminist film theory were able to survey and asses the field at the time. One of the most notable Laura Mulvey.

Laura Mulvey's 1970 Theory
Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" has now become a classic and a guiding principle of feminist film critique. Her analysis of film diagnosed two major issues within Hollywood that allowed for an inaccurrate portrayal of the feminine experience up until that point in time. Her first claim is that "men and women are differentially positioned by cinema." This idea is that women are positioned in roles as inferior or subservient to men. The lead roles or main action roles are normally held by men. This perpetuates the stereotypes that females are incapable and that males are dominating and the leaders of the group. The second claim is that women are portrayed in film as "objects for masculine desire and fetishistic gazing." This relates directly to the sexuality of females. The prevalence of a romantic element to a female's role shows that beyond a romantic or sexual element, women in the plot line are essentially worthless.

Both of these ideas are damaging to the image of women and keep in place the patriarchal standards put in place.

Feminism in Contemporary Film
More contemporary, we have Sophie Mayer with her publication Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema that focuses on feminist film theory in the 21st century. After many years since Mulvey's 1970 publication, feminist media continues to struggles to find accurate representation in plot alone. Many of the same issues pointed out continue to be an issue. Mayer focuses instead on other elements of film beside plot to view through a feminist lens. Mayer's publication moves across genres and discovers small nuanced additions to film to make her source of analysis. For example, she uses the imagery of water in film to explain feminist film theory. She also looks at other cinemtaic elements such as costuming that expand the volume of works that can be reviewed with feminist film theory.

An Example of Contemporary Feminist Film: Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road is a good example of a film that shows female empowerment in film. The post-apocoalyptic film starts with the enslavement of the survivors in a fortress named the Citadel. The citizens are severely deprived of water as the apocalypse has left the world a barren desert. The story line follows that of warrior Imperator Furiosa, who is responsible for driving to a water reserve to get more water for the Citadel. She joins forces with a runaway captive, Max Rockatansky. The two race against the henchmen of the evil dictator of the Citadel, with several thrill racing scenes to create a story line in which females are the heroes and the main focus.

One of the most important factors to this film that adds to the Feminism, is the fact that Furiousa is aiding the evil dictator's young wives in escaping. She has promised to take them to the "Land of Plenty", which is run and inhabited by women only. This idea of women being enherently good and pure is juxtaposed by men being evil, dirty, and diseased. We can see this motif in the form of costume. The young wives wear white sheets, and the men are covered in dirt and oil. Furiosa blends in by wearing the men's oil and dirt, but inside is pure like the women. The director, George Miller (director), worked together with activist and writer of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler to ensure the film was an feminist perspective. The film features dynamic and multifaceted women. Furiosa is the leader of the group throughout the film, and the young escaped women are both loving and nuturing as well as powerful and strong.

Article Evaluation
The article I read was the whistleblower website made in for the 2016 election, TrumpiLeaks is a very tricky article. I think that it was bordering on the biased article line. As far as information content, the article is very haphazard. It jumps from what the website itself was, information about the author’s works that are unrelated, and talk about whistleblower websites like WikiLeaks. In general, I would clean up the intro and watch the biased language. Th8631a (talk) 20:47, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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