If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't

change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Kathryn Bigelow

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There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
Kathryn Bigelow

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When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
Kathryn Bigelow

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There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
Angelina Jolie

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http://documentaries.about.com/od/populardocsubjects/tp/womens_films.htm ann oakely

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir

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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir

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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
Judith Butler

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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler

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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
Jacques Lacan

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Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Jacques Lacan

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Gramscis theory of hegemony can be used to both films to identify how both characters, Bridget Jones and Vivian Ward are seen to be under the dominant ideologies of the bourgeoisies, or in their case the men and society classes within their lives.

There are two central aspects of Gramscis definition of hegemony that dominant ideologies are often offered as common sense, and that dominant ideologies are in tension with other forces and hence constantly in flux. (Sturken & Cartwright, 2004: p. 356-357) 11 years after Pretty Woman was released in 1990, Bridget Joness Diary was released but yet we still see so many comparisons

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/feminism.htm (REF 1.) Code, L. Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, (year), P. 366 OPPRESSION