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Gender Roles In Movies Essay

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Communication Research: Gender in Films

23 September 2014
Gender Roles in Hollywood Movies:
The Impact on Romantic Relationships
Wexman, V. W. (1993). Creating the couple: Love, marriage, and Hollywood performance. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://pepperdine.worldcat.org/title/creating-the-couple-love-marriage-and- hollywood-performance/oclc/26810060&referer=brief_results. Written by Professor Emerita Virginia Wright Wexman, specialist in film studies and President of the Cinema Studies in the 90s, this book is one of the most authoritative sources and detailed research about the impact of Hollywood movies on couples. Wexman looks at how the portrayal of romantic relationships in movies impacts …show more content…

“Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities.” We will use this book to draw certain categories of textual and performance analysis to then, see the impact on romantic relationships. One of the unique aspect of this volume is the analysis of the perversion of feminism in Hollywood movies: violence, misogyny, homosexual characters: is Hollywood embracing feminism or is it creating a machos equivalent of …show more content…

Tasker uses textual analyses through different case-studies to collate data and observe the changes in tendencies and trends thorough analysis of the representation and role of women in contemporary popular (Hollywood) cinema. The different essays look at contemporary movies in comparison to pre and post feminism. Like most research made about movies, they look at social contexts, textual analysis, and performance analysis in addition to critics’ opinions to collect data. The method varies between the different contributors but are pretty similar: the movies are the base of

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