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Romance cinema may recreate cisgender heterosexual couple representations by means of image-making, with the use of gender bias or traditional images that have considerable effects on how women and men are represented or are expected to behave, which may confront egalitarian models of relationships. This study aims to analyze how the traditional mo...
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... to Table 1, their attitudes toward the reflective potential of images represented in romantic cinema were located in the medium critical values as they did not give forceful answers (never, always). Images of women and men were reported to be seen as traditional or non-egalitarian "sometimes, " with no significant differences by gender. ...Context 2
... I think that cinema continues to show social reality: women look for their prince charming and console themselves by watching romantic movies; however, society begins to move forward, and the liberalization of women becomes increasingly evident, so I think that it should be more faithfully represented. [Q98] While students consume romance cinema for entertainment, according to Table 1, the majority of them debunked non-egalitarian images as they were aware that such movies present unrealistic images, thus showing the capability for arousing reflection. In fact, as other studies have shown, their responses reflect this aspect of "relax and do not think" while watching a movie (Deleuze, 2013) in which the images presented are already assumed to be unrealistic, or to be something that should not be normalized, as confirmed by their reports: ...