Presentation of Women in Kikuyu Film: a Case Study of Mucii Ni Ndogo.

Abstract

This study analyses presentation of women characters in Mucii ni Ndogo. It investigates the character roles women characters are accorded and the strategies used by the filmmaker to depict the women characters. The study is guided by the formalist and the feminist film theories. The formalist film theory helps to study the visual elements like the camera angles, shots, movements and mise-en scene (colour, lighting, costume and props, make-up and setting). The feminist film theory on the other hand analyses the stereotypical presentation of women characters in the film. The overall methodology used is close textual analysis.