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)
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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