Women in 1950's Hollywood Films-- the Hayse code and the changing roles of women.

I am not a scholar of feminism, but I believe that any such movement such as feminism must have seminal images in the popular imagination to become a popular movement. The popular imagination, here, consists of what its mass media produce. A member of the populous can see the media how she likes, as fascist dictators of the imagination or as an anarchic self governed pool of imagery to add to and take from as …

…the representation of women in film, during the fifties, was a time of change. Films began addressing more realistic desires and needs of the female populous. But it also seems that the old ways are still powerful. The Hayse code may have lost it's power but chauvinism and sexism still reign. There were no women nominated for best director award in this year's Academy Awards (probably, though I didn't watch them so I'm not positive).