Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again. With this formula it seems that romantic comedies are actually meant for men instead of women. If this is the case, then why do women watch these films? The repetition of female stars like Katharine Hepburn, Doris Day and Meg Ryan in romantic comedies allows audiences to find elements of truth in their characters as they grapple with the input of others in their life choices, combat the anxiety of being single, and prove they are less sexually naïve than society would like to admit. In 1999, a character struggles with her career and love life being the subject of newspaper headlines. In 1959, an older single woman repeatedly interrupts and mocks a playboy’s wooing via a telephone party li...
This study examines the gender ratio of characters in the 150 top-grossing full-length animated film...
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in and movement against the gender inequality of c...
Female representation has been slowly but steadily increasing in many sectors of society. One sector...
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again. With this formula it seems that romantic comedi...
abstract: This study examines four films from Sollosi’s 2018 list of the top fifteen grossing box of...
This article begins with a simple observation: there are very few contemporary Hollywood films in wh...
Have you ever seen a movie where the female lead began the film completely goal and career oriented;...
The art of film has captivated the world for generations — a central component of the captivation is...
What can romantic comedies with satirical elements tell us about the romantic comedy genre and roman...
In the traditionally patriarchal Hollywood industry, the heterosexual man’s “male gaze,” as coined b...
The aim of this essay is to look at the representation of males and females in movies and analyse wh...
The films His Girl Friday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Annie Hall are dominated by the male gaze and...
Keywords: sexism, ambivalent sexism, gender roles, pop culture, film Purpose Traditional ideas of se...
This study examines the Hollywood romantic comedy in the context of gender and genre. Utilizing a va...
Our analysis of thousands of movies and books reveals how these cultural products weave stereotypica...
This study examines the gender ratio of characters in the 150 top-grossing full-length animated film...
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in and movement against the gender inequality of c...
Female representation has been slowly but steadily increasing in many sectors of society. One sector...
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again. With this formula it seems that romantic comedi...
abstract: This study examines four films from Sollosi’s 2018 list of the top fifteen grossing box of...
This article begins with a simple observation: there are very few contemporary Hollywood films in wh...
Have you ever seen a movie where the female lead began the film completely goal and career oriented;...
The art of film has captivated the world for generations — a central component of the captivation is...
What can romantic comedies with satirical elements tell us about the romantic comedy genre and roman...
In the traditionally patriarchal Hollywood industry, the heterosexual man’s “male gaze,” as coined b...
The aim of this essay is to look at the representation of males and females in movies and analyse wh...
The films His Girl Friday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Annie Hall are dominated by the male gaze and...
Keywords: sexism, ambivalent sexism, gender roles, pop culture, film Purpose Traditional ideas of se...
This study examines the Hollywood romantic comedy in the context of gender and genre. Utilizing a va...
Our analysis of thousands of movies and books reveals how these cultural products weave stereotypica...
This study examines the gender ratio of characters in the 150 top-grossing full-length animated film...
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in and movement against the gender inequality of c...
Female representation has been slowly but steadily increasing in many sectors of society. One sector...