The purpose of this essay is to analyze the following animated films: “Girl's Night Out” by Joanna Quinn (1987), “Persepolis” by Satrapi and Paronnaud (2007) and Nina Paley's “Sita Sings the Blues” (2008). The main objective is to analyze the aesthetics and technique of the aforementioned animated films and also to relate them to the second and third waves of the feminist movement. In Quinn's "Girl's Night Out" we are introduced to the main character Beryl, a grand lady who works on an assembly line installing cherries on top of cupcakes. In a way this reflects indirectly on the first wave of the feminist movement, due to the fact that Beryl works on an assembly line, and if we think about it, this could be directly linked to the 1940s when women joined the war effort , working on assembly lines that usually perform jobs traditionally done by men. I think this, in a way, led to the second wave of the feminist movement, as one of the main goals was equality. Later in this short animation, we see Beryl with her colleagues in a bar/strip club. In my opinion this scene clearly represents the r genre...
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