women in film

Kim Icreverzi kicrever at uci.edu
Fri Jan 28 10:23:58 EST 2011


Hi Lola,
I'm not sure what the parameters of mainstream film are in this case, 
but the example that springs most immediately to mind is Hamano Sachi's 
2001 /Yurisai///Lily Festival/, which explores the sexuality of a woman 
in her 60s.
Best,
Kim

On 1/29/2011 12:02 AM, Dolores Martinez wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've just been asked by BBC Radio about the representation of older 
> (by which they meant in their 60s and 70s) single women in Japanese 
> film (and was  told that a Japanese woman who had already been 
> interviewed replied to this with: Yes, women in their 30s and 40s do 
> feature).   The question threw me: lots of grandmothers came to mind 
> and all sorts of women are represented in television films, but single 
> elderly women in mainstream films? And positive reply representations of?
> I need your collective encyclopedic knowledge on this one!  Lola
>

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