Question 2

How does your media product represent certain social groups?

Representations.

How did we represent: genderFemale - mysterious, violent, murderer, beautiful lady.

Male - detective, drunk, black.

How did we represent: LocationsThe pathway.

The office.

How did we represent: ageFemme Fetale - 40s

Detective - Quite young

How did we represent : Class & StatusFemme Fetale - Classy, quite high in the Socio Economic Group.

Detective - Also quite high in the Socio Economic Group.

How did we represent: ethnicityFemme Fetale - White

Detective - Black

Society

How did we represent ‘people’ in the world of our film?The Femme Fetale is represented as violent.

Whereas the detective is represented as a ‘fool’, manipulative and gullible.

Stereotypes

StereotypesThe main stereotypes were the femme fetale being a female

and the detective being a male.