Notes from Chapter 3

    I found chapter 3 in the textbook somehow hard to understand because of all the different concepts that it coverts. When we talk about ideologies, film is a good example and one form of ideology because of all images, symbols, and narratives that are covered in films. Films are ideology because every film offers to us some morality - positive and negative ways of behaving. Every film is different and is based on the film director's sense of what is right and what is wrong, so the audience get an ideological perspective of different characters, cultures, etc. 

    When we talk about movements and film. Every film follows a particular trend in cinema of its time. There are many different film movements classified by chronological order related to the history. Some examples are: French New Wave, Italian Neo- Realism, etc. The theory of structuralism is also connected to film theory because every film convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions that is similar to the meaning of language in communication. The film theory is important because it helps us to understand the films on a deeper level. Film theories help us understand different films by classifying them in different genres, years, period, place, etc.

    From this chapter, I found the most interesting the part when it talks about feminist theory in film. Feminist film theory coverts the problems with stereotyped representation of women in films. This theory was mostly influenced in 1970s and it pointed out how women are represented on the screens by myths about them and feminity in general. In this period a lot of criticism was addressed toward the portrayal of the female characters in film culture and diverse distinction between the male and female roles in film. In my opinion both genders are equally important in each career and in film too. There are wonderful women in the film industry and filmmaking. Women unfortunately still struggle to keep their place and we know how many women earned awards, Oscars compared to men. I believe in the future of women active in the history of film industry. I also hope that one day I will be one of that women who will work in film industry and maybe make her own films. 

 In this post I will mention my favorite women film director Sofia Coppola. She has 3 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and she become the third women to be nominated for Best Director Academy Award. She has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for one of my favorite films Lost in Translation.