How Does Steven Jacobs Present The Portrait Of Women In Film Categories
In the book, The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir Gothic Melodramas and Ghost Stories of the 1940s and 1950s, the co-author, Steven Jacobs find two different categories to put in the portrait of women. There is, in one hand, the portrait of the mysterious and seductive women who will entrance the male protagonist before they even met in real life. On the other hand, the portrait of the matriarchal figure, the portrait of a woman to whom the female protagonist will identify with. In this essay, I will try to present the function of the portrait in thriller movies. I will first present the two categories of women portrayed using the two movies I mentioned earlier. Then I will show how the obsession with the portrait