Dan Shaw wrote:
Perhaps a little more background about what I am looking for will
help. Pat and Mike is a relatively healthy pre-feminist take on
equality.
Thelma and Louise is an anti-feminist film in feminist guise, as a
male buddy picture with the roles reversed. The Piano is a
controversial case, with no clear consensus on the question of
whether its liberating or repressive. Antonia's Line is a bit too much
of a polyglot of styles for my taste. It is easy to find studies
of strong women repressed...Frances is a good example, but I already
do Bad Timing in my Freudian section. The Hours also seems
problematic, as it is too much about the subject of suicide. I seek a
film that stirringly celebrates a strong woman, and
not as a labor activist (as in Norma Rae, Silkwood, Erin Brokovich and
North Country)
If at some time you did want to problematize your conception of
"strong" woman by considering the phenomenological dialectic--if I
might put it that way-- between the actor and the character, I'd
suggest any film with Anna Magnani. Another problematic portrayal of
strength, Two Women (dir: De Sica; Sophia Loren, 1961). And,
obviously, many Bette Davis vehicles (Little Foxes--not all "strong"
women are role models)
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