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- Title
Screening the Old: Femininity as Old Age in Contemporary French Cinema.
- Authors
Beugnet, Martine
- Abstract
This essay discusses the participation of old women in contemporary French cinema. Old women are seldom seen in mainstream cinema in the country. Old women in French motion pictures usually play the role of someone who is deaf, dumb or beset by senility. They are stereotyped in cinema and are mostly represented in comedies because this genre of motion pictures depend on defined clichés. Films cited as examples include "Lacombe Lucien," "Chacun cherche son chat/When the Cat's Away" and "La Chambre des magiciennes/The Sorceresses' Room."
- Subjects
FRANCE; OLDER women; FEMINISM &; motion pictures; MOTION pictures &; women; MOTION pictures; STEREOTYPES in motion pictures; LACOMBE Lucien (Film); WHEN the Cat's Away (Film); OLDER women in motion pictures
- Publication
Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2006, Vol 39, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0039-3819
- Publication type
Essay