What Is The Ethnographic Representation Of Women In Kypselia

Rachel, you made an outstanding point that the film Kypseli: women and men apart-a divided reality was very biased and pulled towards the inferiority of women compared to the men in this society. According to Dimen-Schein “the film's weak point is that it uses a variety of structuralism that implies that sexual opposition and inequality are eternal (an "age-old European cultural pattern"), that being eternal they therefore need no explanation, and that Kypselian women (and, by extension, all women) cannot change” (Dimen-Schein 1977, 194). Therefore, the facts that the narrator presents do not match the visual. Ruby argues that “ethnographic filmmakers are logically required to conduct ethnographic studies of the reception of their films if