The Empowering Women unit of the World Cinema unit is a great opportunity to look at how film can explore these wider issues and themes.
Selecting films which have significant similarities and differences is obviously key in engaging students but given a world of cinema to choose from, which ones?
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) and La Femme Nikita (France) are two films which make an ideal pairing and are suited to a range of questions asked by examiners. The pair have striking similarities in terms of central characters who stimulate questions relating to male dominated societies and women’s place in such cultures.
In each case the films present a female character in a genre most often associated with male protagonists. Girls with the Dragon Tattoo is a crime thriller based upon Stieg Larson’s Millennium Trilogy while La Femme Nikita draws on the action movie.
These genres are recognisable and enjoyable for most students but immediately confront gender expectations in presenting unconventional female figures.
In each case the narratives bear comparison as the protagonists have to cope with mental trauma, significant psychological issues, forming a trust relationship with a male character and confront societal attitudes toward females through violent confrontations.
The presentation of each film is, however, quite different and so they also lend themselves to a debate of directional style and approach.
This resource presents the main issues and themes in each film using slides to illustrate and identify key revision points. It raises points of debate that can be used with students in preparation for the FM4 World Cinema unit and is ideal for teachers coming to the unit for the first time and as a revision tool for students preparing for the exam
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