The History of Chick Flick
The history of chick flicks
“ Chick Flick” is a slang term to describe movies that appeal to females rather then males. Many of the films that fall under the “chick flick” genre are films that are heavy with emotional or relationship based story lines that appeal to females.
Movies designed to appeal to women have been around since the early days of cinema.
Many of the early movies that appeal to women such as Brief Encounter, Now Voyager and Mildred Pierce and the 1950’s Melodramas the tone and content of these films has be argued to be seen as a sub-genre of women’s film.
Some film critics have argued that the modern chick flicks are very different from the women films of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the modern films now “sing another tune” says film critic Molly Haskell. She feels that the womens films of today are “post modern and post feminist”
Many of the recent chick flicks have been based on fairytales such as Cinderella. Chick films that have a similar story line to old fashioned fairytales are films such as The Princess Dairies, Ever After and Pretty Woman. Some films are even based on Shakespeare’s plays for example She’s the Man. A large number of films are based on numerous best selling novels for instance The Devil Wears Prada and classics e.g. Little Women.
Hollywood started to produce the pradticable story line “boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl and finds her again in time for the credits to roll’
Pooja
“ Chick Flick” is a slang term to describe movies that appeal to females rather then males. Many of the films that fall under the “chick flick” genre are films that are heavy with emotional or relationship based story lines that appeal to females.
Movies designed to appeal to women have been around since the early days of cinema.
Many of the early movies that appeal to women such as Brief Encounter, Now Voyager and Mildred Pierce and the 1950’s Melodramas the tone and content of these films has be argued to be seen as a sub-genre of women’s film.
Some film critics have argued that the modern chick flicks are very different from the women films of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the modern films now “sing another tune” says film critic Molly Haskell. She feels that the womens films of today are “post modern and post feminist”
Many of the recent chick flicks have been based on fairytales such as Cinderella. Chick films that have a similar story line to old fashioned fairytales are films such as The Princess Dairies, Ever After and Pretty Woman. Some films are even based on Shakespeare’s plays for example She’s the Man. A large number of films are based on numerous best selling novels for instance The Devil Wears Prada and classics e.g. Little Women.
Hollywood started to produce the pradticable story line “boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl and finds her again in time for the credits to roll’
Pooja
posted by Pooja Patel at
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