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Popular culture is sending mixed messages about female representation and objectivity in film. Films starring women and about women are too few and far between, and while men dominate behind the production of film, weak, dependent, confused, sexy
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Popular culture is sending mixed messages about female representation and objectivity in film. Films starring women and about women are too few and far between, and while men dominate behind the production of film, weak, dependent, confused, sexy, and crazy are still going to be the most definable features of the feminine protagonist in cinema. Despite this tradition, certain films have deviated from this projection of women, and rebelled against the typical stereotypes that are familiar to female representation. Through this deviation, there is an empowerment of women, a presentation of gender equality creating the ideal of feminism; an ideal which the audience may identify with as these new images and portrayals of women have created a new defining identity of a female character. There is a strong relationship between image and identity, not only in film but in the real world as well. We all "judge a book by its...
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