Women On Screen
May 6, 2008Lynn Zeigler reports on a conference at the Geena Davis Women’s Media Center on the historical context of how we see women on TV. Part of her report:
In a study presented at the conference of 13 top-grossing children’s films with female leads–produced between the mid-1930s through the 1990s and many of them from Disney–only one featured a character who wasn’t looking for “happily ever after” with a prince. Dorothy Gale, from “The Wizard of Oz”–the oldest movie in the bunch as it so happens–kept her eyes on a different prize: going home.
