Critical Investigation Tutorial- Write up

·         Question: Why do comic book movies like The Avengers reinforce traditional gender stereotypes and what impact does this have on audiences?

·         Angle/hypothesis: Comic book movies reinforce traditional gender stereotypes.

·         Linked production: film opening (with at least one female character) – working with Armond and Zaid.

·         Representation – think about under-representation (lack of female characters, also lack of depth to female characters).

Research

http://screenrant.com/female-superhero-women-movies/

http://www.newsarama.com/15438-move-over-boys-10-female-superheroes-who-need-movies.html

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/24/us-university-to-offer-course-in-marvel-movie-studies

http://www.participations.org/Volume%209/Issue%202/8%20Burke.pdf

Book Mr Halsey needs to buy: Film and Comic Books (Paperback) Ian Gordon (Editor), et al.

To Do Next

> SHEP - write up

> Include : Representation, Media effects, Moral panic, Media technology and he digital revolution -changing tech in the 21st century

>  Theories: Gender and ethnicity, Marxism and hegemony, liberal pluralism, audiece theories , genre theories and contemporary media landscape.