{"id":20,"date":"2007-07-23T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/2007\/07\/23\/gender-roles\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:00:13","slug":"gender-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/2007\/07\/23\/gender-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our last class we noted that there are very few female-character-driven films.  In fact there are very few films that strive to portray the broad-spectrum of roles that both genders play in relationships.  The writer\/director who I find does the best job of presenting an interesting spectrum of relationships and gender roles is Pedro Almod\u00c3\u00b3var.  This is good timing for our discussion of this because 9 of his films are being re-released into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/vivapedro\/\">theaters<\/a> over the fall.  His films are serious yet comical, and always interesting.  If you don&#8217;t mind the subtitles I highly recommend them.  I also recommend his most recent release &#8220;Volver&#8221; which stars Penelope Cruz and is entirely centered around female characters and artfully balances dark comedy around serious and thought provoking situations.  I mention these films because I have come to find that we often become so entranced in the mainstream films of our country that it is hard to pick up on the biases\/ cultural influences in them.  When I started watching Spanish films I became much more aware of not only what Hollywood was not accurately representing in movies, but also how different subjects and topics could be approached.  \u00c2\u00a1Viva Pedro!<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/files\/2007\/07\/vivapedro.jpg' title='Viva Pedro'><img src='http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/files\/2007\/07\/vivapedro.jpg' alt='Viva Pedro' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last class we noted that there are very few female-character-driven films. In fact there are very few films that strive to portray the broad-spectrum of roles that both genders play in relationships. The writer\/director who I find does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/2007\/07\/23\/gender-roles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}