The image, Untitled Film Still #21, was captured by Cindy Sherman in 1978. This is just one photograph in a 69 photograph series called Untitled Film Stills. To make the pictures, Sherman posed in all of the roles or, more precisely, played all of the actresses playing all of the roles. In other words, the series is a fiction about a fiction, a deft encapsulation of the image of feminity that, through the movies, took hold of the collective imagination in postwar America—the period of Sherman's youth, and the crucible of our contemporary culture (Web 2016).
This and the whole series where to appear as if they where an actual frame from a movie reel. I feel this image is a narrative to what Sherman wanted to expose. In this case Sherman’s pose and attire makes me think she was trying to look like she is in [the] 1960s. The way Sherman places her head, and the look in her eyes. She seems to be reacting to something in this pose. Is it disgust, fear, anxiety, and was this her plan in the thought of a narrative? In this image and others of Sherman’s series, she chooses this thought of fragility and yet ultra feminism. …show more content…
It seems it was something of a style Alfred Hitchcock produced in his movies. Taken as a whole, the Untitled Film Stills – resembling publicity pictures made from a movie camera – read like a stereotypical female role inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, B movies, and European art-house films. But while her character and scenario may seem familiar, Sherman’s Still image #21 is entirely fictitious; they represent clichés (career girl, bombshell, girl on the run, vamp, housewife, and so on) that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination. While the picture can be appreciated, it comes to one’s individual identity (Web
This and the whole series where to appear as if they where an actual frame from a movie reel. I feel this image is a narrative to what Sherman wanted to expose. In this case Sherman’s pose and attire makes me think she was trying to look like she is in [the] 1960s. The way Sherman places her head, and the look in her eyes. She seems to be reacting to something in this pose. Is it disgust, fear, anxiety, and was this her plan in the thought of a narrative? In this image and others of Sherman’s series, she chooses this thought of fragility and yet ultra feminism. …show more content…
It seems it was something of a style Alfred Hitchcock produced in his movies. Taken as a whole, the Untitled Film Stills – resembling publicity pictures made from a movie camera – read like a stereotypical female role inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, B movies, and European art-house films. But while her character and scenario may seem familiar, Sherman’s Still image #21 is entirely fictitious; they represent clichés (career girl, bombshell, girl on the run, vamp, housewife, and so on) that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination. While the picture can be appreciated, it comes to one’s individual identity (Web