 The woman's films that were produced in the 1930s during the Great Depression have a strong thematic focus on class issues and questions of economic survival whereas the 1940s woman's film places its protagonists in a middle- or upper-middle-class world and is more concerned with the characters' emotional, sexual, and psychological experiences.The female protagonist is portrayed as either good or bad.Haskell distinguishes three types of women that are particularly common to woman's films