The Evaluation - Question 2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The social group our media product represented was women. We represented women first by portraying Scarlett as the vulnerable female ("the damsel in distress") being chased by the male, as this is what usually happens in films, an example of this would be from the film "The Silence of The Lambs" shown at the beginning of the movie. However the tables are turned as she subverts to the usual stereotype by becoming more dominant and in a figure of speech "wearing the trousers". We showed the tables were turned by putting her at the top of the steps and using high and low angle shots to show her authority, again we can see a similar situation in other films such as the 1944 Noir Film "Double Indemnity."

     

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