Film Viewing: The Stepford Wives (1975)
Film Viewing: The Stepford Wives (1975)
Please ensure that you view The Stepford Wives during the same time period as you are working your way through the materials in this theme of the Course.
The image below marks my own view of the fear factor for the film. You can map your view in the Stepford Wives and the Fear Factor choice activity.
The Seventies in Context
We have noted the importance of context and I suggested, in Approaching the Genres that we can map changes to cultural attitudes toward technology and gender by looking at films that are representative of a particular culture at a particular point in time.
As The Stepford Wives is, somewhat, a product of 70s culture, you should look at the following websites for contextual/background information.
You will find details of world history events in the seventies. This is a very rich site that is well worth exploring if you want further background information on the seventies or, indeed, any decades covered in this course.
The Feminist Chronicles Website gives rich and detailed timelines of important events by the year. I've directed you here to begin at 1970, but you will notice that as you scroll down the Feminist Chronicle webpage there is an index of years that you may choose from.
from about.com gives you a list of key historical events in the seventies.
At the BBC's site (bbc.co.uk) you will find information on UK history post 1945.