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A Study of The Women in Cinema (Doc)

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A Study of The Women in Cinema (Doc)

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Running head: WOMEN IN CINEMAWOMEN IN CINEMAName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note:
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1WOMEN IN CINEMATable of ContentsIntroduction................................................................................................................................2Discussion..................................................................................................................................3Chapter 1................................................................................................................................3Chapter 2................................................................................................................................7Chapter 3..............................................................................................................................10Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
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2WOMEN IN CINEMAIntroduction Throughout history cinema has been the medium of portrayal of the social issues fromthe very beginning of the advent of Cinema. It has been the mirror which portrays the goodand ugly of the society. It is however the discretion of the directors to decide on what all canbe shown on the screen and in what way messages are communicated. There has been manyschools and styles of films. “German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, Soviet Montage andFrench New Wave” are styles of cinema that are the milestones which revolutionised the waymessages are conveyed to the mass. In itself it is an art to communicate the messages ofsocial importance to the viewers of the cinema. Therefore there needs to be precise clarity ofthought before the scenes are put together and the sequences are formed. The collection ofscenes are known as sequences. The scenes are important in order to form a meaningfulsequence. There have been various ways in which the scenes are set in order to form thesequences. In soviet montage here is a use of highly edited smaller scenes which arejuxtaposed over one another, which produces a feeling of amazement and surprise. GermanExpressionism again focuses towards display of grandeur and royalty in each scenes so thatthe outcome of the sequence is majestic and magnificent, therefore this style is known by theterm “Expressionism”. The women had been playing a very important role in shaping the course of Cinema,be that in terms of acting in the cinema, directing the films or being the centre of the plot. Inthe late sixties, the films started portraying feminism and its various shades (Lieberman,2014). The worldwide movement of feminism and the assertion of rights in the process isshowcased in cinema throughout the globe. The display of female athletes in cinema is one ofthe aspects of showcasing feminism in cinema (Domeneghetti, 2017). The genre of sportshave been for long dominated by the males of the society, the female players have broken thisundisputed dominance in almost all the genres of sports. Post that the films have adopted
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3WOMEN IN CINEMAshowcasing of the female athletes in a positive light and their struggle to inspire more femaleathletes to come out and play. Some of the milestone movies in this regards are “She’s TheMan, Fast Girls, Love and Basketball, Whip It, The Next Karate Kid, Girl fight, Bring It On,The Mighty Ducks, Little Giants, Million Dollar baby, A League of Their Own, Bend it LikeBeckham, Battle of the Sexes” and many more (Izquierdo Sanchez, Elliott & Simmons,2016). This paper describes the incidents in the film Battle of the Sexes in the light ofportrayal of women athletes in cinema. This film was released in 2017 and was a biographicalwork in which the epic game of 1973 Tennis match between the world’s number one maletennis player and the world’s number one female tennis player, in which Billie Jean King theworld’s number one female player won defeating Bobby Rigs, the world’s number one maletennis athlete.Discussion Chapter 1Nowadays, female athletes receive more attention in the media and are also assuccessful as male athletes. However, the media coverage is focused on their body and howto present them in the different media channels even that women have a long history offeminism and fights for their rights. They are still reduced in the media which also has animpact on the cinema industry. Women and especially female athletes were more the secondrole and shown for their sexuality (Robles, Aranda & Urbistondo, 2017). Since the twenty-one century, female athletes become the primary role in sports films and showing strengthand braveness in non-soft activities, as like football, basketball and tennis. This has a positiveside effect to the younger generation of girls in the present./
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