“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
-Walt Disney
The interpretation of this “language” is exactly what I will be exploring in this blog in regards to women in film. While I do agree with Disney that pictures speak a universally understood language, what universal meaning is being derived from the portrayal of women? From vamps to femme fatales and everything in between, I will be analyzing the women that started it all as well as analyzing where the women in film are today. Have we developed our own female “type” in film? Or has the history of film rewound once more to embrace us into a repeat age of scream queens?
Let’s find out!
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