A major component of cultural industry, cinema has significant impact on the subconscious mind of the masses throughout the world. Since the beginning of cinema in 1896, it has been an influential medium reflecting the social identities and cultural values. Filmmakers’ portrayal of the conventional images and gendered stereotypes has also been subjected to continual evaluation for a couple of decades. Positive changes regarding gender roles in cinema are now evolving from the usual typecasting.
Significance of woman’s film as a certain genre lies in identifying women-centered narratives, female protagonists and also designed portrayals of women’s concerns regarding domestic chores, motherhood, stories of self-sacrifice, integration into the workday world and romance. Rather than encompassing women film makers, woman’s films often mean films specially made for women, even by men screen writers, directors or producers.
Although woman’s cinema in both Hollywood and Bollywood in the second half of...
Significance of woman’s film as a certain genre lies in identifying women-centered narratives, female protagonists and also designed portrayals of women’s concerns regarding domestic chores, motherhood, stories of self-sacrifice, integration into the workday world and romance. Rather than encompassing women film makers, woman’s films often mean films specially made for women, even by men screen writers, directors or producers.
Although woman’s cinema in both Hollywood and Bollywood in the second half of...
- 1/2/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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