5 reasons why women directors are such a rare sight.

- Film is male dominant. the whole business is constructed so there are jsut men at every level.

- Work is hard for women as they have children to take care of.

- Female psyche: women have no self-belief

- women are not as creative as men

- because of gender issues about control and autherity

1990s

Junior is a film by Ivan Reitman which was mad ein 1994 and it underlines the 'new man'. This film expresses the fact that men today have changed as they have similar charactistics as women as Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a pregnant man.

1980s

This is a clip from Scarface and it portrayes the return of male dominance in the media after the second wave of feminism as it conveys typical conventions of a patriarchal film as it highlights the power of men and the control they have over women.

1970s

This is a clip from the famous 'Alien'. This film was released in the late 1970s which was right in the middle of the second wave of feminism. Alien was the first action film where the leading role is taken by a female. this also links with my study as my texts has Keira Knightly as the leading proagonist.