How and why has the representation of women changed in films since the 1980s?
“There is no such thing called unmediated access to reality” (dyer 1993),this essay will be discussing women’s role in film between the 1980s to the 2000s, how it has changed and why. I will be using a Big Eyes, 9 to 5 and Alien as an example to show how female characters were represented and the difference in their contribution to the narrative. Firstly representation means to depict or to show an image of something that is already there which in this essay will be women , when it’s used by mass media it creates stereotypes about people and countries, re-presentation gives a meaning to the things that are depicted for example relationships and how close it is to …show more content…
Feminist scholars began taking cues from the new theories arising from these movements to analyzing film. Initial attempts in the United States in the early 1970s were generally based on sociological theory and focused on the function of women characters in particular film narratives or genres and of stereotypes as a reflection of a society's view of women. Works such as Marjorie Rosen’s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream (1973) and Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies (1974) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women is significantly low compared to men according to Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University claims that things are just as bad onscreen too. Out of 23,000 lead roles in 2014, just 12% were women. Back in 2002, it was 16% with that it seems the industry have gone backwards a few …show more content…
Catherine Orr says “Post-feminism assumes that the women’s movement took care of oppressive institutions,and that now it is up to individual women to make personal choices that simply
“There is no such thing called unmediated access to reality” (dyer 1993),this essay will be discussing women’s role in film between the 1980s to the 2000s, how it has changed and why. I will be using a Big Eyes, 9 to 5 and Alien as an example to show how female characters were represented and the difference in their contribution to the narrative. Firstly representation means to depict or to show an image of something that is already there which in this essay will be women , when it’s used by mass media it creates stereotypes about people and countries, re-presentation gives a meaning to the things that are depicted for example relationships and how close it is to …show more content…
Feminist scholars began taking cues from the new theories arising from these movements to analyzing film. Initial attempts in the United States in the early 1970s were generally based on sociological theory and focused on the function of women characters in particular film narratives or genres and of stereotypes as a reflection of a society's view of women. Works such as Marjorie Rosen’s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream (1973) and Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies (1974) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women is significantly low compared to men according to Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University claims that things are just as bad onscreen too. Out of 23,000 lead roles in 2014, just 12% were women. Back in 2002, it was 16% with that it seems the industry have gone backwards a few …show more content…
Catherine Orr says “Post-feminism assumes that the women’s movement took care of oppressive institutions,and that now it is up to individual women to make personal choices that simply