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Item Performative Iconography: Empowering the Cinematic Trope(Keyhole Press, The University of Tampa, 2022-04) Gottdiener, AnnaUntitled Film Still #16 by Cindy Sherman, Marxism in Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism by Hannah Wilke, and La Notte by Michelangelo Antonioni are analyzed through the lens of feminism, iconography and film theory. Second-wave feminist criticism of Sherman’s and Wilke’s work as narcissistic is challenged. Superficially labeling performative female artists who use their own body for expression is a result of internalized misogyny. Association of women’s external identity performance with internal values stems from patriarchal thought. Instead of being limited to just a masculine representation of self, feminists can represent themselves with traditionally feminine symbolism and still be revolutionary. This essay was written in Dr. Rosemarie Trentinella’s ART 225 class.