For this reading, I chose the reading from week 1 called ‘Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas’, I found this reading interesting and very eye-opening. I’ve never looked so much into this category before thus it was one interesting one to go through. It talked a lot on how women shaped the industry, and the things that went on, one point I truly enjoyed was the invention of Women Films. The cultural work feminist critics performed in “inventing” the genre of the woman’s film. It was interesting as I’ve never heard about it before, as the invention of Woman’s Film Academic feminist critics has been freed from the business of marketing film, where it was pretty necessary to invent the genre of the woman’s film in order to address neglected aspects of classic films.
Another point I found very admirable was about keeping the remaining important content in contemporary feminist film-making. It wasn’t common before, but the look on it’s growth is admirable. Female directors do not neglect the divided attention on the traditional Hollywood genres and in the meantime focus on self-conscious women’s films. When that happened, it destabilised both gender stereotypes and genre categories, being a formation of a new creation called hybrid cinema and including the new figuration of feminism.