Inside Cinema
Beauty Queen Dreams
2020 • E18 Jul 29, 2020 6m
From Drop Dead Gorgeous and Miss Congeniality to Little Miss Sunshine and Dumplin', Beth Webb explores how movies can subvert the patriarchal concept of the beauty pageant. Popular discourse may now believe that these beauty contests are superficial or sexist but in cinema, women can use the pageant as an opportunity to claim power and find community.