Fried Green Tomatoes-Portrayal of Women

Gender and Popular Culture - The Portrayal of Women in Fried Green Tomatoes and Other Films Personal thoughts about the subject In our class about gender and popular culture, most discussions, either they dealt with literature, music or television, ended up with the conclusion that women are always being looked down upon, that we are being oppressed, that soceity is built by men for men, on their premises, and that women have to play by …

…popular culture Edited by Lorraine Gamman & Margaret Marshment The Women's Press Limited (London: 1988) Spectacular Bodies-Gender, genre and the action cinema Yvonne Tasker Routledge (London: 1993) Postmodernism and Popular Culture Angela McRobbie Routledge (London: ) Sight and Sound "USA 1991" Geoff Brown March 1992 Film och TV "Vänskap, solidaritet och kvinnlig laganda" Gunilla Granath nr.4 1992 Filmrutan "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café" Henry Lundström nr. 3 1992