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This 8 page paper discusses the perspective of filmmakers analyzed with a feminist eye. Various movies throughout history are examined for social commentary about women and their roles. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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to prevail. An analysis of various films throughout the ages indicate that despite the move toward progress in most areas, the area of film still continues to keep women relegated
to second class citizenry. Studying film and cinema with a feminist eye has enhanced the study of cinema and film, but what has contributed the most to a discussion and
understanding has been the way in which womens images have been portrayed. Female Images in film throughout the ages Mention the word movie and most people will equate it with
entertainment. However, prior to World War II movies were not viewed with the same perspective. Movies were entertainment, but they were also comments on social conditions, attitudes, and ways of
life. As such, then, human sociology could be studied through the various films that were produced prior to the 1940s and the prevailing ideas could be discovered. In addition, it
seems likely that the history of cinema, then, does not just include the element of entertainment, but a history of human social theories. Thus, when one watches the movies made
during this period of time, one will see specific images of women forced into narrowly defined roles of domesticity, servility, and a desire to please her man.
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially established interpretation of sexual difference which controls images,
erotic ways of looking and spectacle"(Mulvey 1989). Thus, what she is stating is that film and other media, whether consciously or subconsciously, reinforces the male dominated perceptions and stereotypes of
women. Therefore, every film which is produced by a man will tend to be a male perspective toward women. However, this does not exempt women, as we shall soon see,
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