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Sex and The City

Directors: Susan and Alison Maclean Susan Seidelman

• Her first attempts in movie making at Tisch School of the Arts Film school were awarded

• In 1982, she made her debut feature film Smithereens, which was critically acclaimed as the first American independent film to be selected for competition at the .

• Her second film Desperately Seeking Susan was the first step for into the movie business and it was the first major success for Susan Seidelman. and came to prominence with that movie too • • 1981 Smithereens • • 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan • • 1987 Making Mr. Right • • 1989 Cookie • • 1989 She-Devil • • 1998 Sex and the City - Pilot • • 1999 A Cooler Climate • • 2002 Gaudi Afternoon • • 2006 Alison Maclean

is a film director of music videos, short films, commercials and feature films. Her works include the feature “The Crush” the music video Torn (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film Kitchen Sink (1989) and the feature film Jesus' Son (1999) starring Billy Crudup. Sex and The City

• Touted as a groundbreaking television series for its representation of independent and successful women who defy traditional conventions concerning female sexuality • By applying Laura Mulvey’s theory of visual pleasure to the function of costume in Sex and the City, clothing may be viewed as a potent factor in constructing or forming the presentation of the female body and consequently the notion of femininity in general. • Under such an analysis, costume works on a dual level to both establish the female body as a display and to create it as an exhibit it for the visual delectation of the male gaze. • Thus, the often-striking image of the women holds the potential to overpower or eclipse the ostensibly progressive features of the show and instead restores these women to the confines of a patriarchal society by establishing them as figures tha tparticipate in or adhere to its established structure. --Rosalba Curiel Subjective Gaze? • Do the characters in Sex and the City possess an active gaze? Are the men passive? • Is there a role reversal? • Is the role of costume and visual pleasure the same in Sex and the City as it is in Vertigo? • Are the women playing the role of Jimmy Stewart to themselves?