A Study on Female Solidarity in Hollywood Films: Focused on Jodi Dean's Solidarity Concept

This paper analyzed how female solidarity is represented in Hollywood films and its characteristics. Three classifications of Conventional Solidarity, Affectional Solidarity, and Reflective Solidarity suggested by Jodi Dean are used as theoretical frameworks in order to explain this. Before the fourth wave feminism, female characters were often portrayed as holding each other in check and keeping their distance from others. However, since 2011, when the fourth wave feminism began, the relationship between women in movies has been represented differently than before. Women share value norms to accomplish common interests, have conventional solidarity, and sometimes get together in affectional solidarity in which they internally cooperate with each other through mutual consideration and love and they also unite in reflective solidarity that can coexist even in the differences. Solidarity is a driving force that may achieve something; in a male-centered society, female solidarity was regarded as difficult one to be formed however relationships between women are being rebuilt through solidarity.