Films can represent gender in many ways some can be good some can be bad, this mainly though depends on the character and how the storyline flows. There are typical sterotypes for women in movies these can be being the women who normally get killed that some times can be worked out from the beginging of the movie, or the more down to earth and sensible women who normally makes it out of the movie and kills the bad guy. In class we started watching horror movies and looking at the technical code or what horror genre movies follow. One of the movies that we watched is Halloween that represented the gender roles very well, having the main protagonist that could either be the victim or the hero.
Though the Halloween movie featured a final girl that wasn't seen as a sexual object towards men she didn't dress up or have any makeup on compared to the other girls in the movie. And in movies it follows the conventions that the teenagers who are virgins survive, this is more a conservative view though. Another thing that horror genres follow in is colours, where the evil character is wearing darker clothes compared to the survivor or hero normally wears white. And these conventions first mainly started in the Halloween movie, and then contined into the movies that we watched today only they are more developed as the technology has grown. Both sexes have a different approach to the media industry with men the media normally show them as dominant, strong, active, independant, intellectual and authoritaive. Where as women are normally shown submissive, passive though there is a large focus on the physical beauty and are normally seen as a sex object and emotional. So we can see that both men and women play very different roles, and this has been successful over the years so it is a method that has carried on for many years. Some of the roles that are played are more traditional for exmaple men normally are shown as having the succesful job where as women stay at home and raise the family, the males are also more likely to be shown away from home compared to the women. There is also a technique called the "male gaze" this is a theory developed by Laura Mulvey in her famous essay "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema", this has been suggested as adopting camera techniques which present the women as sexual objects and this is where the audience is literally put into the eyes of the male. This is usually the main protagonist though the camera work creates a lot of this frame, by usually using long shots and tilts up the body especially when the lady used as a object walks into the room. This is because the camera will get frames of the womens body parts for example where we only see a womens legs in a frame as a close up, this is mainly designed though for the male audience. The classical theoretical view of women in media are seen for these four main purposes as domestic, sexual, consumer, and marital when watching a lot of horror movies with the women being more the caring role and always going out shopping this is why shops target more the women into buying products.
Though the Halloween movie featured a final girl that wasn't seen as a sexual object towards men she didn't dress up or have any makeup on compared to the other girls in the movie. And in movies it follows the conventions that the teenagers who are virgins survive, this is more a conservative view though. Another thing that horror genres follow in is colours, where the evil character is wearing darker clothes compared to the survivor or hero normally wears white. And these conventions first mainly started in the Halloween movie, and then contined into the movies that we watched today only they are more developed as the technology has grown. Both sexes have a different approach to the media industry with men the media normally show them as dominant, strong, active, independant, intellectual and authoritaive. Where as women are normally shown submissive, passive though there is a large focus on the physical beauty and are normally seen as a sex object and emotional. So we can see that both men and women play very different roles, and this has been successful over the years so it is a method that has carried on for many years. Some of the roles that are played are more traditional for exmaple men normally are shown as having the succesful job where as women stay at home and raise the family, the males are also more likely to be shown away from home compared to the women. There is also a technique called the "male gaze" this is a theory developed by Laura Mulvey in her famous essay "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema", this has been suggested as adopting camera techniques which present the women as sexual objects and this is where the audience is literally put into the eyes of the male. This is usually the main protagonist though the camera work creates a lot of this frame, by usually using long shots and tilts up the body especially when the lady used as a object walks into the room. This is because the camera will get frames of the womens body parts for example where we only see a womens legs in a frame as a close up, this is mainly designed though for the male audience. The classical theoretical view of women in media are seen for these four main purposes as domestic, sexual, consumer, and marital when watching a lot of horror movies with the women being more the caring role and always going out shopping this is why shops target more the women into buying products. 
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