Dissertations / Theses: 'Gender identity in motion films'

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Lam, Sze-man, and 林思敏. "All about sexuality: gender studies in Pedro Almodovar's films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29810784.

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Castillo, Gilbert Gerard. "Gender, Identity, and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3354/.

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This project is an examination of the Hong Kong film industry, focusing on the years leading up to the handover of Hong Kong to communist China. The influence of classical Chinese culture on gender representation in martial arts films is examined in order to formulate an understanding of how these films use gender issues to negotiate a sense of cultural identity in the face of unprecedented political change. In particular, the films of Hong Kong action stars Michelle Yeoh and Brigitte Lin are studied within a feminist and cultural studies framework for indications of identity formation through the highlighting of gender issues.

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Crilly, Shane Alexander. "'Gods in our own world': representations of troubled and troubling masculinities in some Australian films, 1991-2001 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc9291.pdf.

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Hartson, Mary T. "Masculinity in Spanish film from prohibition to commanded enjoyment /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Sapre, Manasi. "Memories of Motherland: Gender, Diaspora and National Identity in 1990s Indian Popular Culture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3076/.

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This thesis examines the role of globalization, an open economy and diasporic experiences on the 1990s popular Indian culture, focusing on discourses of gender, national identity and family. Recent Indian beauty queens and international beauty contests are discussed in the context of gendered nationhood in 1990s India. Several popular films of the 1990s are discussed as narratives expressing longing for an extended family and a homogeneous national identity under the leadership of a traditional father figure. In contrast, independent films interrogate the primacy of ethnic and national identity and raise interesting questions about exilic experience. All of these forms of national and popular culture reflect the conflicting and ever-changing anxieties surrounding national identity and the role of women in India.

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Hwang, Yun Mi. "South Korean historical drama : gender, nation and the heritage industry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1924.

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From the dynamic landscape of contemporary South Korean cinema, one trend that stands out is the palpable revival of the historical drama (known as the ‘sageuk’ in Korean). Since the early 2000s, expensive, visually striking, and successful costumed pieces have been showcased to the audience. Now rivalling the other mainstream genres such as gangster action, romantic comedy, and the Korean blockbuster, the sageuk has made an indelible impact on the national film industry. Even so, the cycle has yet to receive much critical attention. This thesis addresses the gap, driven by the question, what is the impetus behind the surge of the ‘historical’ witnessed in recent sageuk films? For this, I first take a diachronic view of the historical context of the genre, which later serves as the reference point for the genre memory. Adopting a synchronic approach, I then examine the industrial, political, and social contexts in Korea at the turn of the new century that facilitated the history boom. While national memory and transnational politics fuelled Koreans’ interest in their past, the popular media – cinema, television, publishing industry, and performance theatre – all capitalised on this drive. The government also took part by supporting the ‘culture content industry’ as a way to fashion an attractive national image and accelerate the cultural export system. Collectively, these efforts translated to the emergence of history as a commodity, carving a unique space for historical narratives in the national heritage industry. As such, different agents – the consumers, the industry, and the state – had their stakes in the national mobilisation of history and memory with competing ideological and commercial interests. Ultimately, the sageuk is the primary site in which these diverging aspirations and desires are played out. In chapters that follow, I engage with four main sub-types of the recent historical drama, offering textual and contextual readings. The main discussion includes the ‘fusion’ sageuk (Untold Scandal), the biopic (King and the Clown and Portrait of a Beauty), the heritage horror (Blood Rain and Shadows in the Palace), and the colonial period drama (Rikidozan, Blue Swallow and Modern Boy). While analysing the generic tropes and narrative themes of each film, I also pay attention to contemporary discourses of gender, and the cultural treatment of masculinity and femininity within the period setting. Such investigation, in turn, locates the place of the historical genre in New Korean Cinema, and thus, offers a much-needed intervention into one of the neglected topics in the study of cinematic trends in South Korea.

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楊舒恒. "戲裏戲外 : 香港六十年代國語電影女星的螢幕再現與現實生活 = Inside/outside the movies: Hong Kong Mandarin film actresses of the 1960s : their representations on screen and their real lives." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/926.

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Van, Niekerk Tanya. "'N Feministiese analise van animasiekarakters vanuit 'n feministiese benadering." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10122004-135247.

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Romero-González, Tanya. "El enigma de Medem: Espacio, género y desdoblamiento en Vacas." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1259193836.

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Choudhuri, Sucheta Mallick Kopelson Kevin Kumar Priya. "Transgressive territories queer space in Indian fiction and film /." Iowa City : University of Iowa, 2009. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/346.

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Yeung, Yuk-ngan. "Gender representation in films." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?

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Yeung, Yuk-ngan, and 楊玉顔. "Gender representation in films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953773.

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Ngan, Ka-hing, and 顏加興. "Gender representation in Zhang Yimou's films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007640.

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Ngan, Ka-hing. "Gender representation in Zhang Yimou's films /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34614424.

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郭賢偉 and Yin-wai Joseph Kwok. "The construction of gender identity in Hong Kong cinema." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30257384.

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Chan, Chi-ho, and 陳志豪. "Sexuality, identity and "The hours"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29918054.

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Kwok, Yin-wai Joseph. "The construction of gender identity in Hong Kong cinema /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?

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Lindenfeld, Laura Ann. "Feasting our eyes : food films, gender, and U.S. American identity /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Chan, Lai Man Amelia. "Nicole Kidman :gender equality and feminist ideology in films." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953456.

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Leung, Yee-man Yvonne. "Ideology and the performance of gender in Chinese cinema." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262038.

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Yu, King-lun Sunny, and 余經綸. "Gender and crime in postmodern cinema." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29793233.

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Lam, Shue-fung. "(Un)making Chineseness gender and cultural politics in Clara Law's films /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37754191.

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Leung, Yee-man Yvonne, and 梁以文. "Ideology and the performance of gender in Chinese cinema." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953633.

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Copsey, Dickon. "Race, gender and nation : the cultural construction of identity within 1990s German cinema." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1927/.

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This study offers a cultural studies reading of race, gender and nation as represented in three thematic sub-genres of contemporary German film production. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that each of these thematic sub-genres offers a unique insight into the cultural construction of a distinct, yet problematic and porous umbrella identity enjoying a particular cultural currency in post-Wall Germany. It should be noted that, in this respect, this study represents a move away from these traditional diachronic analyses of German film, which attempt a snapshot of an entire history filmic production, towards a more clearly delineated, synchronic analysis of a single contemporary moment – namely, the 1990s. The first of these thematic sub-genres concerns the ambiguous romantic narratives of the sexually autonomous yet avowedly post-feminist New German Comedy women. As a significant sub-genre of the popular New German Comedy film of the early 1990s, these films embody a clear structural reliance on the narrative norms of a classic, mainstream cinema. In contrast, the cinematic representations East(ern) Germany, past and present, incorporate a myriad of generic forms and registers in their explorations of the meaning of reunification for eastern German populations, from up-beat comic road movies to psycho-allegorical tales of internal disquiet. The third area of this study concerns itself with the representation of Turkish-German populations in 1990s German cinema. As eclectic as the cinematic representations of the East, the work of these Turkish-German filmmakers appears to offer a troubling cinematic trajectory from abused and exploited first generation Gastarbeiter to self-assured and recalcitrant street-tough Kanaksta.

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Lam, Shue-fung, and 林澍峰. "(Un)making Chineseness: gender and cultural politics in Clara Law's films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37754191.

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Calhoun, Claudia Y. ""When I get home, I'm fixin' to stay" : gender and domesticity in Post-World War II musical Westerns /." Connect to electronic thesis, 2005. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2006/251.pdf.

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Chan, Yiu-hung. "The construction of sexuality of Hong Kong cinema in the 90's." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20454806.

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Ogawa, Sho. "Conflicting views of homosexuality among the mainstream films and gay "pink" films of Japan." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1217700754.

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Stull, Gretchen Brinson Susan L. "It's a man's world representations of gender and competing ideologies in ""Shaun of the Dead /." Auburn, Ala., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1542.

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Van, Lill Hilda. "Exploring issues of identity and belonging in the films of Mira Nair : Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4316.

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Thesis (MDram (Drama))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to study the themes of identity and belonging in the films of Mira Nair. Three films form the basis of this study namely Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding. The approach is thematic, i.e using the film to explore different socio-political themes of identity rather than looking at the methodology she uses as a filmmaker. The analysis of each of the three films looks at a particular form of identity namely national, cultural or personal identity, and makes reference to Nair’s own comments on the films as well as academic articles on the films, her work and issues such as identity, nostalgia, home, belonging, marginalization, immigrants, street children and the like, in order to interrogate Nair’s exploration of the particular ideas within these films. It examines the films as if it were a work of literature, and looks at how it deals with these issues within a filmic context. What symbols does she use to show us we are dealing with cultural identity? Which character is symbolic of the modernist movement? Finally it examines the potential effect of these films on the society from which they derive, and comes to some conclusions about the effect these films may have in challenging, shaping and/or influencing ideas about nostalgia, home, identity, and so on. The discussions of the films show that she has been superbly able to exploit all the advantages of her chosen medium to bring her remarkable visual inventiveness and artistry into play in order to communicate this to an international audience and to make them think about the issues at hand. The filmmaker is finally established not only as simply a creator of film, but ultimately as a thinker and poet.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie tesis is om die temas van identiteit en ‘n gevoel van behoort in die films van Mira Nair te bestudeer. Drie films vorm die basis van die studie naamlik Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala en Monsoon Wedding. Die aanslag is tematies van aard, m.a.w. dit gebruik die films om die verskillende sosio-ekonomise temas van identiteit te identifiseer en ontleed, eerder as om die metodologie van haar as filmmaker te bestudeer. Die analise van elke van die drie films kyk na ‘n spesifieke vorm van identiteit, naamlik nasionale, kulturele of persoonlike identiteit en maak verwysing na kommentaar deur Nair haarself, sowel as akademiese artikels oor die films, haar werk en kwessies van identiteit, nostalgie, die konsep van ‘n tuiste, ‘n gevoel van behoort, marginalisasie, immigrante, straat kinders en dies meer. Die doel is om sodoende Nair se idees oor identiteit binne hierdie films te bevraagteken en ontleed. Die tesis ondersoek die films asof dit ‘n literere werk is, en neem in ag die maniere waarop dit na hierdie kwessies kyk binne ‘n filmiese konteks. Daar word byvoorbeeld gekyk na watter simbole sy gebruik wanneer sy verwys na kulturele identiteit. Watter karakter is die simbool vir die modernistiese beweging, ens. Uitendelik bevraagteken die tesis the potensiële effek van hierdie films op die omgewing en omstandighede waaruit dit ontstaan het, en kom tot sekere gevolgtrekkings met betrekking tot die mate waarin hierdie films kwessies van tuiste, nostalgie, identiteit ens beinvloed en/of vorm en bevraagteken. Die besprekings dui daarop dat sy baie bevoeg is om al die voordele van haar verkose medium tesame met haar indrukwekkende visuele verbeelding te gebruik om aan ‘n internasionale gehoor die kwessies te kommunikeer en hul te dwing om aktief te dink oor die kwessies aan hand. Uiteindelik word die filmmaker Nair nie slegs as ‘n skepper van film beskryf nie, maar ook as ‘n denker en digter.

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Dunagin, Kultida Boonyakul. "Cultural Identity in Thai Movies and Its Implications for the Study of Films in Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277966/.

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The primary purpose of this study was to find the content and form of movies which conform to the taste of the majority of Thai audiences and, at the same time, are universal enough to attract international audiences. Because film is an extension of other art forms, this required extensive research into the roots of Thai performing arts.

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Williams, Melanie. "Prisoners of gender : the representation of women in the 1950s films of J. Lee Thompson." Thesis, University of Hull, 2003. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5588.

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Chan, Yiu-hung, and 陳耀雄. "The construction of sexuality of Hong Kong cinema in the 90's." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951612.

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Janes, Jen. "The Texas chainsaw massacre: our collective nightmare." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2008. http://165.236.235.140/lib/JJanes2008.pdf.

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Acres, Harley Blue. "Gender bending and comic books as art issues of appropriation, gender, and sexuality in Japanese art /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. http://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007m/acres.pdf.

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Cáceres, García Juli. "El destape del macho ibérico masculinidades disidentes en la comedia sexy (celt)ibérica /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436260517/viewonline.

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O'Skea, Doreen Lynn. "Perpetual girlhood: what the movies have taught us about ourselves : a content analysis of Best Actress Academy Award-winning films from 1961-1997." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133726.

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Empowered, embattled and embittered women seem to be everywhere in the media today. Either in film, on television or on the Internet, there are more and more women being shown in a variety of working roles. Women are being shown in nontraditional jobs, they are allowed to work in the man's world and they can take charge. All of these things are remarkable but a note of caution is needed, for while these women are working the boardroom the girls are taking over.Women in power are increasingly being shown as unattractive, undesirable and unpleasant. While their counterparts- girls, are shown as loving, lovable and sweet. Films are reinforcing the girlish archetypal ideal by allowing girls to be the winners in nearly all situations.Female characters may begin the story as independent women but they are soon shown the error of their ways and are quickly reduced to a more pleasant, more malleable girl by the film's end.The content analysis of 37 Best Actress Academy Awardwinning films revealed that women are reduced to girls nearly 87 percent of the time. These women gave up their careers, or at least their career goals. They changed their appearance, they altered their personal goals and they suddenly found a way to express more emotion than they ever had in their life as a woman.Further analysis revealed that several subthemes were present in the films. In 19 of the 37 films women were raped or they were the victims of attempted rape. In 12 of the 37 films women were widows, they either began the film as a widow or they were to shortly suffer the grief of widowhood. In 22 of the 37 women are the victims of violence or they are threatened with violence and in 15 of the 37 films the characters are threatened with the loss of their home or they are struggling to make the journey to their home.The final analysis revealed that women were either pitied, maligned, abused or raped while girls were celebrated, loved and adored.
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Henderson, Susan E. "Details, baby, details : a feminist criticism of The crying game." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902494.

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This study examined gender portrayals in the film, The Crvinq Game. The societal labels for gender, "masculine" and "feminine," are not negative in and of themselves. However, when they are coupled with stereotypes, their power to direct behavior and perception formation can rob people of their freedom to be simply "human." This study primarily focused upon the costs of maintaining, challenging, and abandoning gender role stereotypes as illustrated in The Crvinq Game. Sonja Foss's four-step approach to feminist criticism was used as a tool for examination of this film.By examining the appearances, attitudes, and behaviors of the four central characters in the film, two messages emerged. First, in all four cases, being of a feminine nature was less desirable than being of a masculine nature. Second, Neil Jordan, the film's director, prescribes that all people should transcend the boundaries of gender, and simply allow themselves and others to be human.Jordan's humanistic message also provides insight into expansion of rhetorical methods and theories. Feminist criticism and Queer theory could attempt to transcend the boundaries of gender, and work toward the inclusion of all non-traditional sex roles.
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Forscher, Helene. "Animals in the landscape : an analysis of the role of the animal image in representations of identity in selected Australian feature films from 1971 to 2001 /." Gold Coast, Queensland : Bond University, 2007. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/forscher.

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Thesis (PhD) -- Bond University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"-- t.p. Bibliography: leaves 266-281. Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Guillen, Marissa E. "The Performance of Tango: Gender, Power and Role Playing." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1213208506.

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Dorworth, Vicky E. "Learning about the criminal justice protagonists: a content analysis of gender messages in the crime film genre." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27987.

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Various forms of popular culture serve to educate and socialize as well as influence human behavior. In a discipline such as criminal justice, little is known by the general public about the individuals involved with the system: the law enforcer, the victim, and the offender. Therefore, the construction of reality for most is likely to come from media representation. A content analysis was used as a method to systematically evaluate crime films over a period of 20 years to investigate what gender messages were apparent in the genre. A sample of 42 crime films was drawn beginning in 1972 through 1992. The main and supporting characters were analyzed to determine if gender differences existed in regard to occupational representation, victimization, and offending. Focus was on occupational representation. The data was compared to the official data to ascertain whether the gender representations in the films reflected the official data. Trends over the 20 year period were analyzed to determine if the portrayal of women and men over the years reflected the changes experienced in the criminal justice system. The research provided an understanding of the content of this form of popular culture. Males were more likely included in the films than females. This is consistent with the reality of male domination in the field of criminal justice and with past research which indicated that women were often excluded from films. Computed Chi-square tests indicated that significant relationships existed between sex and evidence of the police personality; sex and character appearance in casual, uniform, and seductive attire; sex and use of all types of force; sex and use of expert and coercive power; and sex and aggression as a style of conflict resolution. T Tests revealed that there were sex differences in character appearance in uniform and seductive attire, use of aggression as a style of conflict resolution, commission of crime, and commission of nonviolent crime. The films closely represented the official data in regard to male and female violent offenders with a small overrepresentation of female violence and an equally small underrepresentation of male violence. Women were underrepresented as property offenders and men were overrepresented. In terms of victimization, women were overrepresented as victims of violent crime and property crime. Over the two decades, women were consistently absent when compared to the number of men casted in the films; were consistently underrepresented as law enforcers, with the exception of two, three year intervals; and were most often casted as wives or girlfriends of law enforcers except in one, three year interval. Men were most likely to be seen as law enforcers in every interval, again consistent with the male domination seen in the law enforcement field. Sexism Level I films, indicating extreme sexism, was found to be at least in 67% of all films for each three interval except from 1984 to 1986.
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Labovitz, Katie E. "A Content Analysis of the Gender of Academy Award Nominees and Winners for Films Released between 1927 and 2010." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1306853205.

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Katona, Leah Andrea. "The Use of Violence as Feminist Rhetoric: Third-Wave Feminism in Tarantino's Kill Bill Films." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2759.

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For the purpose of this thesis, the main focus of the feminist rhetorical criticism method was specifically linked to gender-related power inequities. This method was especially appropriate for the analysis of how film violence is used as a feminist rhetorical strategy in the Kill Bill films. This thesis is more closely aligned with challenging rhetorical standards as it sought to identify feminist counter positions of rhetoric in film violence.

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Eirenschmalz, Margarethe. "Dreiecksverhältnisse im Schnee the socio-cultural evolution of the mountain film genre as illustrated by analysis of gender-nature relations in three films by Fanck, Riefenstahl, and Trenker /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456412.

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Mntanga, Overman Mziwakhe. "A critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1030.

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This thesis entitled “a critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas”, endeavours to examine the effect of gender inequality. Women who are iv submissive toward some cultural aspects. It endeavours to give a critical analysis of women’s self assertion in some selected Xhosa dramas. According to the findings in this study, in African tradition women like to enforce patriarchy upon younger women. Older women feel that they have the duty of passing on cultural practices from generation to generation. Everything from manner of dress, posture, appropriate seating positions, eating patterns, performance of household chores, sexual expression, and voice tone and infection, self-esteem and self-concept, flows from the gender one is assigned at birth. From birth then, women and men are set on different physically based psychological paths. Of all the obstacles that limit the advancement of women, those touching upon knowledge and values are the most difficult to remove. When a woman lacks the independent capacity to assert her own positive truths and values, she is unable to contribute her insights and experiences to the various fields of human knowledge. When denied opportunities for higher forms of self expression, women may out of frustration attack the modes of understanding upheld by men. In this study theories such as black criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism and African womanism are relevant for discussing the portrayal of women. The descriptive method of research has been applied. Both observation and participation have been used for exposing barriers that block the development of women. This study will enable literature students and researchers to view culture in a broader perspective. It will enable them to consider conventions which determine the way human experience is presented in literature. Chapter one provides literature students and the researchers with a broad overview about how to develop an introductory perspective. Chapter two aims at developing a theoretical framework which serves as the basis of this study. Chapter three examines the effect of gender inequality. It opens an area of extensive examination that differentiates sexual practice from the sexual roles assigned to women and men. Chapter four examines women who are submissive or radical in some cultural aspects. Chapter five discusses women’s self assertion. Chapter six concludes this study.

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Schroeder, Kathleen Mary. "The female voyeur and the possibility of a pornography for women : redefining the gaze of desire." Thesis, University of South Africa, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3079.

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Collins, Ryan William. "It's All Coming Back to You: 1980s Retro Film Culture and the Masculinity of Cult." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011874/.

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The 1980s is a formative decade in American history. America sought to reestablish itself as a global power and to reassert the dominant ideology of white, patriarchal capitalism. Likewise, media producers in the 1980s sought to reassert the dominance of the white, male, muscled body in filmic representations. The identity politics of the 1980s and the depictions of the white, muscled body once prominent in the 1980s have been the site of conservative nostalgia for a young, male-dominated, cult audience that is a subset of a larger cultural trend known as retro film culture. This thesis provides historical context behind the populist 1980s B-action films from Cannon Group, Inc that celebrate violent masculinity in filmic representations with white, male action heroes. Equally important is the revival of VHS collecting and how this 1980s-inspired subculture reinforces white, patriarchal capitalism through the cult films they valorize and their capitalistic trading practices despite their claims of oppositionality against mainstream taste and Hollywood films. Lastly, this thesis reveals how a new cycle of contemporary films primarily produced outside of Hollywood reasserts and celebrates the dominance of the white, male, muscled body in filmic representations despite a postmodern and hyperconscious exterior. Overall, I argue how these areas of nostalgia are distinct, yet not unrelated, because they reassert white, patriarchal capitalism through the revival of conservative nostalgia for the 1980s.

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Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna. "Gender y genre en las cineastas estadounidenses a principios del siglo XXI." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/283168.

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Si bien existe una cantidad considerable de trabajos de investigación sobre las llamadas cineastas “vanguardistas” o “resistentes” a las estructuras comerciales, la obra fílmica de mujeres que recurren a formas populares no ha recibido suficiente atención crítica en los estudios de cine en general, ni en estudios fílmicos feministas en particular. Esta tesis se propone abordar una selección de obras realizadas por cineastas estadounidenses contemporáneas que han sido percibidas como películas de género en los discursos críticos: la película de terror Jennifer’s Body (2009), dirigida por Karyn Kusama y escrita por Diablo Cody, el western Meek’s Cutoff (2010), dirigido por Kelly Reichardt, y el filme de guerra The Hurt Locker (2008), dirigido por Kathryn Bigelow. Tomando como punto de partida la conceptualización del género cinematográfico como un proceso, y a la vez un repertorio o una constelación de materiales culturales, estéticos e ideológicos, el objetivo es reflexionar sobre cómo las cineastas citadas emplean los formatos genéricos para entablar un diálogo con las formas pasadas, y al mismo tiempo contribuir a rehacer y permutar los imaginarios sociales, en particular en cuanto a la representación del género sexual. La tesis pretende contextualizar la obra de las cineastas estudiadas, ofreciendo un detallado examen no solo de sus películas, sino también de sus figuras públicas, que se prestan a consideraciones sobre una serie de cuestiones que nos parecen cruciales para repensar y problematizar la noción de “cine de mujeres”: la división entre los géneros “masculinos” y “femeninos”, la creciente importancia y visibilidad de la figura autorial de las cineastas, la disolución de los lindes entre el cine comercial y el cine independiente, el contexto de la llamada cultura mediática posfeminista y la cuestión del placer fílmico de las espectadoras. Uno de los objetivos principales es desestabilizar la distinción entre cultura femenina y masculina, así como revaluar ciertos géneros como espacios discursivos válidos para los análisis feministas –abiertos a posibilidades de reinscripción estética, narrativa e ideológica– y de esta manera ofrecer un replanteamiento crítico de la deslegitimación o del olvido habitual de ciertos géneros cinematográficos en contextos particulares. En términos generales, esta tesis se propone examinar con qué tipo de obstáculos y limitaciones se enfrentan las cineastas, sea por su género sexual, sea por el género cinematográfico en el cual eligen trabajar, pero también cómo traspasan o desestabilizan estas fronteras, forzándonos a rediseñar nuestras propias herramientas metodológicas, conceptos y entramados teóricos a partir de los cuales repensar la vigencia del “cine de mujeres” como clave hermenéutica. La tesis se estructura en cinco secciones: un capítulo que incluye el marco teórico, un capítulo dedicado al estudio comparativo y extratextual de la recepción y de la construcción de la figura autorial de las cineastas abordadas en esta investigación, y tres capítulos que contienen análisis detallados de tres géneros fílmicos: cine de terror, western y cine bélico. La intención no ha sido ofrecer una visión panorámica del cine de mujeres estadounidenses en el momento actual, ni trazar la evolución de las respectivas cineastas o tradiciones fílmicas en el sentido más amplio, sino más bien ofrecer una aproximación transversal y sincrónica, que permita destacar los principales problemas que surgen en la intersección del género cinematográfico, la autoría fílmica de mujeres y el género sexual.
While a considerable amount of research has been done on so-called “avant-garde” or “oppositional” female filmmakers, women who make films by drawing on popular forms have still to be given sufficient critical attention, in film studies in general, and in feminist film studies in particular. The objective behind this thesis is to address a selection of works of contemporary American filmmakers which have been perceived in the critical discourses as genre films: Jennifer’s Body (2009) as a horror film, directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody, Meek’s Cutoff (2010) as a western, directed by Kelly Reichardt, and The Hurt Locker (2008) as a war film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. In particular –and taking as a starting point the conceptualization of genre as a process, a repertoire or a constellation of cultural, aesthetic and ideological materials– the aim is to reflect on how these filmmakers use the genericity of filmic storytelling to engage purposefully with past forms, at the same time as contributing to remaking and shifting social imaginaries, especially in terms of gender representation. This thesis seeks to put women filmmakers in context, offering a close examination not only of their films, but also of their public figures, which raise a number of intriguing questions that are crucial to rethinking and problematizing the notion of “women’s cinema”: the distinction between “male” and “female” genres, the growing importance and visibility of authorial images of female filmmakers, the blurring borders between commercial and independent cinema, the context of the so-called postfeminist media culture, and the consideration of female spectatorial pleasures. This thesis neither attempts to offer a panoramic vision of contemporary women’s cinema, nor to trace the evolution of respective filmmakers and filmic traditions in the wider sense, but rather to present a transversal and synchronic approach, one that underlines the principal obstacles that arise at the intersection of film genres, female film authorship, and gender.

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Ruben, Jennifer Lynn. "Illusionary Strength; An Analysis of Female Empowerment in Science Fiction and Horror Films in Fatal Attraction, Aliens, and The Stepford Wives." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1355753729.

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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.

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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.

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