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Cinema is always evolving and it’s an exciting process to witness, to explore and to understand and film such as Carol is an example of a film that has gone quite some way in transcending its original moment of release and has become something of a landmark in contemporary cinema, contributing significantly to the genre of the movie melodrama and to ideas about film authorship. The film is also rewarding in terms of how it might prompt us to consider the representation of gender. As the hashtag now rightly reminds us: #representationmatters. As an additional, immediate note in relation to Carol, it’s useful to distinguish here between the terms sex and gender. Sex is understood to refer to the biological and gender as cultural.
Every film in some way reflects some of the concerns of its time, and the particular ways of looking at the world within that culture, that society, and that moment in time. To fully understand a film, you need to know something of the era in which it was…
