Ideological treatment of gender in "Casablanca".

Title: Ideological treatment of gender in "Casablanca".
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Ideological treatment of gender in "Casablanca".
The movie "Casablanca", a jingoistic movie directed by Michael Curtiz in 1942 explores many different types of relationships between male and female, such as prostitution, adultery and also relationship between a young married couple. In "Casablanca" the females are portrayed to be fairly different from one another to a large extent, ranging from the characters presented as whores to virgins. Similarly for males, they are scaled from so called "bad" men to "good" men. These big …showed first 75 words of 974 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 974 total…Louie's trap. As for the prostitute, she wears very revealing clothes and is seen to have no status in front of men, as shown in the first scene where Rick commands a random taxi driver to send her home. Furthermore, the whore (French) is seen to be paired up with Germans afterwards where the French is supposed to hate, suggesting that they are willing to give any men their virginity and represents her easy-going character.

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