Friday, August 31, 2012

Women in the Nifty Fifties part deux!

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/noir/np02wwii.html

Women in movies at this time were based on what culture said they should be. However, film noir did offer some films with women who deviate from the typical woman of that time. They were depicted as femme fatales or weirdly independent. Unfortunately, their fate in some of these movies did not go well or they are somehow converted.

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