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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"women in cinema"”.
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Iranian Women Unveiled (2020): a documentary film about six Iranian women activists produced in relation to a feminist analysis of the representation of Iranian women in cinema
My PhD is a practice-based project containing a feature-length documentary, Iranian Women Unveiled, and an accompanying written thesis. The documentary is a portrayal of the lives and struggles of six influential Iranian women activists, now living in exile, engaged in a number of areas of …
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E as Cangaceiras? As representações sociais e o imaginário do feminino cangaço no cinema
This study examines the social representations of cangaceiras in Brazilian cinema, based on an analysis of the films O Cangaceiros (1953), Lampião, rei do cangaço (1963), As Cangaceiras Eróticas (1974) and A ilha das Cangaceiras Virgens (1976). The material was analyzed using a gender lens, with …
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Refashioning Difference: Costume and the Materiality of African and Afro-diasporan Cinemas
Feminist film scholarship has rehabilitated costume by correcting the view that it is a frivolous, feminized element of filmmaking, arguing instead that dress establishes historical and geographic context. Despite these interventions, little research has explored costume from non- Western cinemas, …
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… dissertation is to trace the dynamics present in film representations of women characters during the Thaw, Perestroika, and the ealy 1990s by identifying and analyzing female types appearing on screen as a result of political, economic, and social changes during the two periods. The given …