De Haven's character is a personification of the first level of analysis of realism; the film adapts prevailing assumptions of the male dominated system and negates them by having a woman, who still makes sure her hair is perfect and maintains her elegance, fill an effective role in that very system. ...
Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. Her movies Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Bigamist are no exceptions. Rather than focusing on gender issues, Lupino chooses to investigate the delicate balance that common people walk between decent and outrageous morals. As a female director in an otherwise male-dominated 1950s Hollywood, perhaps Lupino's most arduous task was to make her films stand out from the classic Hollywood mode and her ambiguity and subject matter both aid in achieving this goal. Feminist critics ca...
The French feminists in particular construe "woman" as any radical force that subverts the concepts, assumptions, and structures of traditional male discourse -- the realism, rationality, mastery, and explanation that underline it. ...
