But in a genre which has always been dominated by the male hero narrative, what role have women had to play? ... Examples from other genres, such as westerns and horror, will help us to argue how the science fiction genre has helped to progress the now more equal role women play in cinema. ... Now Science Fiction has five major themes which unites them under the one genre. ... The rise of feminism bought about feminist film theory, in the United States, this was lead by Molly Haskell, Marjorie Rosen and Joan Mellen, who were all writing on the representations of women in cinema in the earl...

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Postmodern writers tend to be more ambiguous in meaning, structure and genre. ... Even Doctorow's venture into the western genre itself is postmodernist. ... In modernist writing, rights and wrongs are more identifiable and characterization and theme less ambiguous. ... Since she does not have the illusion that writing can be realism, she, like the other two writers, lets the structure and voice fit the story that is told. ... Ruth only comes to understand her mother through her mother's writing, written in her own...

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Stockton belongs to American popular literature genre. ... It was his better judgment of writing on the middle class that won him his fame. ... It is this trickery which differentiate his writing from others. ... It this genius of his writing that one see how he manipulates the same kind of characters and storylines to portray human socialization behavior basically the same but changing to the needs of time. ... The element of psychological weight must, be taken into account and given full coverage to, for Stockton with great endowment includes, this aspect to his writing, and in fact, the...

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• Grade Level: High School