Filmed images of women factory workers: work, gender and dignity, variations on a classic trilogy (1962-2011)
The article studies representations of female workers in movies, directed for the most part by women, over the past fifty years. The diversity of these films reflects evolutions in cinematic production and differences between countries and areas of the world. Most of these films show the peculiar pa...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Clio
2017
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The article studies representations of female workers in movies, directed for the most part by women, over the past fifty years. The diversity of these films reflects evolutions in cinematic production and differences between countries and areas of the world. Most of these films show the peculiar painfulness of the work carried out by female workers in certain industrial sectors. Some of them concentrate on the struggles against the difficulties and constraints of work, and, in Western Europe, depict struggles relating to plant closures. These movies depict gender inequalities or contradictions both at work or in other facets of life; these are portrayed at times as being at the heart of the struggles. Lastly, the dignity of female workers is a concern present in most of these movies. |
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