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Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96255-1. Greven, David (2011). Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-23-011251-3. Haskell, Molly (1987). From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in ...
March is Women’s History Month , which means it’s time to spice up our streaming queue with the best feminist movies. And thanks to streaming platforms like...
Catherine Shoard of The Guardian gave the film two out of five stars and wrote that "Winslet manages emotional honesty within anachronistic confines, and Schoenaerts escapes with dignity." [ 37 ] Mark Adams in his review for Screen International said, "the film is a gracefully made delight, replete with lush costumes, fruity performances, love ...
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Writing for New York, Judith Crist noted that for Summer, "the moral proved to be that loss of virginity [for boys], via an older woman, guaranteed instant maturity, compassion, sensitivity, and creative perception", whereas with Our Time, young women's loss of virginity to their peers comes with a price. [11] "For the pretty and popular teen ...
It shouldn't have to be said but: Women are great! Movies couldn’t and shouldn’t be made without women in the rooms where the decisions are made. Luckily for us, that problem is increasingly ...
This is a chronological list of melodrama films.Although melodrama can be found in film since its beginnings, it was not identified as a particular genre by film scholars—with its own formal and thematic features—until the 1970s and 1980s, at a time when new methodological approaches within film studies were being adopted, which placed greater emphasis on ideology, gender, and ...
Feminist film theory, 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 the ways in which women are portrayed in film, and how this relates to a broader historical context.