Representation Of Gender In The Past

Miles (1975)- found that there were equal proportion of men and women in comedies.Davis (1990)-Humour was sexist to females.Female were in comedies at a statistic of 43

Dyer (1987)- degrading and trivialising views of women in game shows.Kaplan (1983)- Women in film still degrading the values, a lot of masculinity in movies.

Susan Faludi (1991)- argued that films of the 1980s were part of a wider backlash against women's liberation and women careers. This includes films such as fatal Attraction and Baby Boom. females characters reduced to mute and incidental characters or banished altogether

McNeil (1975)- women movement been largely ignored by t.v with ,married housewife's being the main female role

In the 1950s- 1970s only 20 to 35 per cent of tv characters were women. – this shows the inequality of gender represented on tv.

Gunter (1995)

Elasmar (1999)

“Tokenism” – rape story lines, female characters to clash with the old guard who might not treat rape very sensitively.

Women in the movies – played the same roles that they played in television programmes

Women had important roles in many films but were given roles such as a frightened character or a character which needs direction and protection.

Feminist critics have out it even more starkly, in 1973 majorie Rosen asserted that the cinema women is a pop corn venus. – a delectable but insubstantial hybrid of cultural distortions.