For centuries and in many countries and cultures, women have been considered in be in the same category as chattel, decorative ornaments, and a display of the wealth of her husband. In our contemporary era of technology, women are still portrayed in films in the same fashion in spite of decades of women's liberation and feminist movements. By psychoanalyzing the Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment, it portrays the plight of women in a culture embedded with machismo. Both John Berger and Laura Mulvey offer insights into examining the role of the modern female form.

Works Cited

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting and Penguin Books, 1997.

Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Page 1.