Historical texts related to my study. . .

Indiana Jones. . .


The film Indiana Jones has a typical representation of women e.g. weak etc, it follows the proppian narrative theory well, for example there is a hero, the girl is seen as the princess who needs saving and there's also a helper etc. Therefore i can use this film whilst talking about how women use to be represented in previous film compared to how they are represented now e.g. in resident evil and how has the on screen representations changed.

P.S I love you



PS. i love you, is a romantic film which represents women stereotypically to an extent, for example it suggests that women rely on men and that they are incomplete without a male, e.g. after her husband dies she doesn't want to do anything, or leave her house etc therefore i can compare this to resident evil, saying how females are now represented as strong both physically and emotionally and also very powerful

King Kong



King Kong is another historical text which i can use while making comparisons when talking about how the on screen representations of females have changed from what they use to be. For example in king Kong the female character is presented as weak and dependent on a male to come save her, which is a typical representation of women.

Provoked


This is a text which represents women as weak, powerless, sexual objects, etc this is shown when the male character says "your nothing, your a women", therefore it is a film which reinforces the stereotypes that females are associated with. The female character is abused and dominated by her husband. Therefore i can compare this text with Resident evil and talk about the change in representation.

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