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Representation
LO: To understand what is meant by the
term Social Implications and how this
can be applied to Representation of
British Women in Film and TV
1940s
The social implications of watching films like A Brief
Encounter (1945) and A Vacation from Marriage (1945)
for the audience of that era would be that they thought
twice about infidelity, divorce, breaking up famillies.
It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.
we're a happily married couple and let's never forget that. This is my home. You're my husband. And my children are upstairs in
bed. I'm a happily married woman - or I was, rather, until a few weeks ago. This is my whole world, and it's enough, or rather, it
was until a few weeks ago. But, oh, Fred, I've been so foolish. I've fallen in love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such violent
things could happen to ordinary people.
The most senior positions in the police force are taken up by women with the
male characters all working under them
New Tricks
Both series put a female in the role of the boss over the men
The women characters are all in professional jobs at the top of their careers Forensic
Scientist, Chief Investigating Officer, Deputy Investigating Officer
Social Implications
Social implications mean how representations
can affect the way we think about people or
places.
Dyer How we treat people is how we see them,
how we see them comes from representation
Discuss the social implications of media in relation to collective identity. You may refer to one
group or people or more in your answer
Dyer suggests that How we treat people is how we see them, how we see them comes from representation .
This quote can be discussed when analysing the social implications of media in relation to British women as a
collective identity. Within film and television there are many contemporary representations of British women
that uphold the dominant ideology as well as challenging it. For example, Tamara Drewe (2010) Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen (2013), Scott and Bailey (ITV) and New Tricks (BBC).
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Discuss history of films to show understanding of social implications A Brief Encounter (1945), A Kind of
Loving (1962) and Coronation Street ITV
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Feminist theory, dominant ideology, capitalism, consumerism, ideological agencies, Marxist theory