Hidden Figures: A Black and Liberal Feminist Movement Portrayed in Theodore Melfi’s Movie

Abstract

Black feminism is concerned with understanding racism, sexism, classism, or other social and political identities as they relate to black women. Liberal feminism is a significant feminist branch that works together to implement political and legal reforms in the context of liberal democracy to attain gender equality. A film is a form of information dissemination used in the feminist movement. Messages and ideologies in a film can affect the audience in affective and cognitive ways. Theodore Melfi’s film Hidden Figures employs feminist theory to depict the inherent concept of women getting stigmatized differently. The type of research is qualitative. This paper aims to discover what black feminism and liberal feminism represent in Hidden Figures. The results show that the black community faces particularly pertinent today, such as workplace discernment and the involvement of getting their accomplishments unnoticed in the indulgence of their white counterparts.