{"id":19,"date":"2021-08-30T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/historyhelpologyanthrostories\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:12:12","slug":"elly-fieffers-research-the-development-of-women-from-myth-to-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/2021\/08\/30\/elly-fieffers-research-the-development-of-women-from-myth-to-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly Fieffer&#8217;s Research: The Development of Women from Myth to Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/letterstoclio\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-300x186.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-1024x635.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-1536x953.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-690x428.png 690w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM-980x608.png 980w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-02-at-10.25.11-PM.png 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>My research project this semester is titled the Classical Divinity of the 1940\u2019s Femmes Fatales where I compared a few ancient Greek goddesses to a few \u201ckiller\u201d leading ladies in the postwar era United States. I compare the goddess Aphrodite to Lilly Powers of Baby Face, who is gorgeously powerful, Hera to Brigid O&#8217;Shaughnessy of The Maltese Falcon, practically perfect and cunning, and lastly Thetis to Gilda of Gilda with untamable ambition. There was so many comparisons that I did not think of when starting this project, but the more I worked on it, I began to even surprise myself with how similar the two pieces were to each other.<br \/><br \/>This project was super fun for me because it combines some of my interests from a young age and how my thoughts have developed over time. I remember calling my mom early in the semester, panicked about not knowing what to do. She told me to explore something new, but something I already loved so it didn\u2019t feel like work. Taking her advice, I started piecing ideas together. I started with a timeframe and some general interests. I\u2019ve always really loved the American 1920s through the 1950s. Freshman year I took a class with Dr. Deno called Reel America where we analyzed American history through film, so when I started thinking about this timeframe, I thought why not attach the film aspect to it and explore women&#8217;s roles. I was also really attached to the idea doing something with mythology, but I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what to do since it was so broad. After working through a variety of ideas, the project before you is what came to light.<br \/><br \/>I would love to turn this into thesis and expand into the modern era, looking into different genres and touch on a few other films from this era that I wanted to incorporate, but did not get a chance to include this time around.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research project this semester is titled the Classical Divinity of the 1940\u2019s Femmes Fatales where I compared a few ancient Greek goddesses to a few \u201ckiller\u201d leading ladies in the postwar era United States. I compare the goddess Aphrodite to Lilly Powers of Baby Face, who is gorgeously powerful, Hera to Brigid O&#8217;Shaughnessy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195962,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[230694,52291,463375,245911,463390],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-classical-studies","tag-film","tag-hst302","tag-student-research","tag-womens-history","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}