I'm really interested in the way females are portrayed in popular culture, and even more specifically, movies. I think a lot of common misconceptions about gender are fueled by movies, TV shows, and literature. Many of the ideas of women all the way back to the 1950's and further have not really changed, and a good many people think we have "progressed" when in actuality we have just changed the way we go about addressing and facilitating inequality. In today's self-proclaimed 'matriarch', having to do with the number of women enrolled in college and employed as upper-level management et cetera, are woman just pawns to media, sitting back because we feel we've hit a brick wall on our search for equality? Is the recent trend of court cases about woman's rights sparking a flame for a revival in bra burning? I'm intrigued by women's role in media and pop culture and how the female gender is shown.
I think a lot of what I'm interested in relatively researchable, but I'm keen to narrow it down to just the female role in film. I would be interested in approaching that in many different ways, not only how the female characters within the film are objectified/praised/etc., but also how the female hand can shape the portrayals (as in how to female directors/screenwriters/etc. change the picture). I think focusing down onto film and its subsidiary topics involving women.
The question I leave for myself is: If I am to further research females in film, should I narrow the topic even further? Will I get a better outcome from just focusing on horror films? Or just focusing on the 'girl-next-door' character that plagues cinema?
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