Films

1950s



Film High Noon (1952)

This clip is of the opening of the film High Noon (1952). The film, being a western, clearly portarys the men as being the most dominant chracters throughout the whole film. The men are represented as being powerful, assertive and confident whereas the women are prsented as being weak and always needed to be protected. The men in the film are the most powerful and are the main charcters in the film. This was very common within the western genre as films like this one would show men to be men. Meanining that they would have the same attitudes to what men would have at the time. The men in western films like this one would be shown to be the ones which do all of the fighting and the ones which have the most power in films.



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1960s



Film Dr No (1962)

The film Dr No shows the female character played by ursala andress from the point of view of the male character james bond. The cinema clearly objectifies the female character which then means that the female audience are forced into a role reversal as the audeince are positioned to see the women from bonds point of view. This would mean that teh women would have to see from the view of the male character. This can be related to "saturing" as the female audeience have to make a cross gender identifcation with the male character.

Film The sound of music (1962)



This film contrasts with the ways in which women were represented throughout films as in this film the main character is a women. This women is presented to the audience as the madonna and is represented to the audience as a motherely figure throughout the film compared to the whore in fatal attraction. The fact that the women is played in the film is the main character shows the changes in which film had, due to the fact that there were more central roles for women in film.

1970s



Film Alien (1979) This film clip is from the flim alien. At this point of time women began to get more central roles in films. This was the second wave of feminism which took place were women wanted to become more independent. The film helped to show the audience that film was changing compared to the way films used to present women throughout the 50s and the 60s. The female charcter is represented as being strong and independent highlighting the change in which women had in film.

Star Wars



The star wars film was centred around the female character of princess leia. She is shown to hav ea certain amount of power in her own ways however she does need the assitance of male charcters to help her.

1980s



Film Aliens (1987)

This film clip is from the film Aliens (1987). At this point of time there was a second wave of feminism which allowed women to become more independent as some were starting to get more job opportunities. This film played an important role in changing the ways in which females were represented in film compared to the earlier years. The main charcter "Ripley" the main female character of the film contrasts in the way in which other females were represented in film. Her charcter in the film however is superior and strong. Dyer had found out that in the 80s there was a change which had more women in central roles in programmes.

1990s



The film Fatal Attraction (1987) saw that there was a male backlash as "faludi" found out that there was a backlash against women having careers and being independent on themselves. The film is able to expolit the different roles in which the women play throughout the film, one being the Madonna in the film is the housewife shown to be caring and innocent compared to the other female charcter she is the Whore as she is the one who uses her sexual appearence in order to get what she wants.

Die another day



The shot of actress hallie berry on this film coming out of the sea again aims to make the female audience indentify with the male character as they are again given the view of the female charcater from the point of view of james bond.