THE CHANGED AND UNCHANGED SITUATIONS IN THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
ABSTRACT: The second feminist
wave in the 1960s has influenced feminists to increase their campaign against
patriarchy in almost all areas. One of the areas which has made women very
vulnerable is the issue of women in cinema. This article investigates some
changes in the representation of women in cinema by comparing four movies:
Stepford Wives (1975), Orlando (1992), When Night Is Falling (1995), and
Stepford Wives (2004). This study was conducted by using modern hermeneutics method.
The results indicate that these four films appear to contain three changed
aspects regarding women, that is, the equality of work, the expression of
sexual identity, and the image of ‘higher-education-woman’. The films also show
that some aspects in the representation of women, such as the expectation of
motherhood, the myth of sexuality, and the position of women as victims, remain
unchanged.
Author: Arif Rohman
Journal Code: jpantropologigg130012
