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"Women's cinema is a complex, critical, theoretical, and institutional construction," Alison Butler explains. The concept has had its fair share of criticisms, causing some female filmmakers to distance themselves from it in fear of being associated with marginalization and ideological controversy. [2]
On 1 November 2017, Women in Cinema Collective Foundation was registered as a society in Kerala following the sexual assault case involving a prominent film actress in the Malayalam Cinema. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The organisation aims to bring social awareness against misogyny practices and intends to be the unified voice for the welfare of women artists ...
The woman's film is a film genre that includes women-centered narratives, female protagonists and is designed to appeal to a female audience. Woman's films usually portray stereotypical women's concerns such as domestic life, family, motherhood, self-sacrifice, and romance. [2]
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"Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema" (1973) in: Claire Johnston (ed.), Notes on Women's Cinema, London: Society for Education in Film and Television, reprinted in: Sue Thornham (ed.), Feminist Film Theory. A Reader, Edinburgh University Press 1999, pp. 31–40 "Feminist Politics and Film History", Screen 16, 3, pp. 115–125
The early work of Marjorie Rosen and Molly Haskell on the representation of women in film was part of a movement to depict women more realistically, both in documentaries and narrative cinema. The growing female presence in the film industry was seen as a positive step toward realizing this goal, by drawing attention to feminist issues and ...
Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin; 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola; 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May; 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden
The African independence movements that rose out of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in cinema that aimed to use the camera as a tool to counter these colonial portrayals. Women were active in the African film industry prior to and during this time, however their roles were predominantly limited to supportive positions such as acting.