Forum “Women, cinema and resistance”

Abstract

We live in the century of image culture. The audiovisual media surround our day to day and are the means by which trends and social messages are transmitted. The cinema, as it can become a weapon of denunciation and empowerment, also at the throughout its history it has been a vehicle for the indoctrination of thought
patriarchal. In the beginnings of cinematographic art, women played an active role behind the camera, even if the female figures projected on the screen were representations of what Virgina Woolf called the "angel of the home." The prototype ideal feminine: the woman limited in rights and with absolute dedication to motherhood, to the care and satisfaction of the physical and moral well-being of his family.