Contemporary account of changes to gender roles and social identity. The marriage of a young couple and their subsequent struggle to make their relationship work provides continuity in a montage of dramatised and animated scenes showing the feelings, ideas, fantasies and images inherent in sex role expectations for men and women in our society. The effects of stereotyping in relationship between the sexes and in individual lives raise provocative questions for discussions. Although ostensibly challenging traditional stereotypes, the program promotes more than a few itself, eg exclusive WASP cast in the dramatised segments; no reference to homosexuality, etc. Animation: M. Borczynski.
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ACMI Identifier
321462
Language
English
Subject categories
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Gender identity - Social aspects
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Social norms
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Femininity
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Gender identity - Social aspects
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Relationships
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Identity (Psychology)
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Marriage
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Stereotype (Psychology)
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)