Woman's film
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The woman's film is a film genre that includes women-centered narratives, female protagonists and is designed to appeal to a female audience. Woman's films usually portray stereotypical women's concer
Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938), one of the quintessential woman's films. Davis plays a Southern belle who loses her fiancé (Fonda) and her social standing when she defies conventions. She redeems herself by self-sacrifice.
In King Vidor's Stella Dallas (1937), Barbara Stanwyck plays a working-class mother who sacrifices her connection to her daughter in order to help her become part of an upper-class world.
Faten Hamama (1931–2015), Egyptian film legend, inspired women all over the Middle East and Africa.
Women's cinema
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Women's cinema primarily describes cinematic works directed by women filmmakers. The works themselves do not have to be stories specifically about women, and the target audience can be varied.
Woman's film
…woman's films were referred to as melodramas. Woman's films are films that were made for women by predominantly male screenwriters and directors whereas women's cinema encompasses films that have been made by women. When the woman's film was still at a nascent stage, it was not regarded as a fully independent genre…
American film director and actress Helen Gardner was the first film actor to found a production company.
Film director Dorothy Arzner was one of the top directors of 1920s–1940s Hollywood.
American film director Claudia Weill directed the critically acclaimed film Girlfriends in 1978.