Write 44 pages with APA style on The difference in Representation and Performance in Gender in the Musical Genre of the 1930s in contrast to that of the Popular Musicals of the late 1970s and early 19

Write 44 pages with APA style on The difference in Representation and Performance in Gender in the Musical Genre of the 1930s in contrast to that of the Popular Musicals of the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, it is not as simple as it looks. The films of Hollywood in the early 1930s at times turned the Horatio Alger myth on its head. The film Wild Boys on the Road (1933) followed the youth in Depression-era as the story of the film focused on them looking for work instead of success. They usually had dashed images of hope, poverty, crime, rape and also the accidental amputation. The heroines of that time no longer got ahead by being good girls that usually married a rich husband. The film Red Headed Woman (1932) and Baby Face (1933) the women were shown with the role of selling their bodies to the highest bidder of the time or using their wiles to trade from a mailroom clerk in order to become the head of the company. Buhler believes that “the Operetta-style topic also represents the musical place in the film where both characters can exist happily together.” (Buhler, 2000:197). On the other hand the heroes of the films did show dogged determination in their way to success, but some of them did give up in trying finding their desired success through the legitimate means and were usually outside the law in order to achieve their goal. The gangster films that were made were Little Caeser (1931), Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932). Some other films that were made during that period implied a critique of the capitalist system that was there in some of the countries. This system showed the depicting people struggling everyday against the establishment institutions which were the government and other big businesses.