Appendix 3.1: Analytic methods - 6 films from 1954
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54 |
GROUP 1 |
GROUP 2 |
GROUP 3________ |
GROUP 4_________ |
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GM |
1: Helen |
2: Helen's 3: Glenn's |
5: Singer and 'Tuxedo 9 : Adopted baby 11: Nurses |
DEFINITIONS OF WOMEN OFFERED VIA FEMALE CHARACTERS
Articulating the ways in which women are defined in popular
films entails, inevitably, drawing on the plurality of
discourses by means of which the world outside the cinema is
habitually negotiated. I refer to the variety of strategies
which enable recognition, more or less successfully, of the
heterogenous social positioning of individuals. This variety
can be succinctly reduced to the following main terms: gender,
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