Gender representation in mediaThe Smurfette Principle The Smurfette Principle is a principle which highlights the fact that most mainstream movies have a male ensemble cast with one women . In Pollitt's words: "Contemporary shows are either essentially all-male, like "Garfield," or are organized on what I call the Smurfette principle: a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined... The message is clear. Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types. Boys define the group, its story and its code of values. Girls exist only in relation to boys." This is so shocking and wrong as the worlds popultion has a ratio of and Hollywood film posters ratio is 5.4 males to each females. The Bechdal Test Stereotypes and Traditional Roles
Cross over of the Roles
Commutation TestThe Commutation Test is a test in which if you can swap a characters gender, race or sexuality and it still fundamentally still works then it shows the character is well develeoped and n
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Narratives rely on the presentation of an initial state of order, which is in some way disturbed in relation to a particular problem or set of problems. Narratives, in short, have to be about change, disturbance, disorder.
As if there is no change the story is boring and uninteresting. Todorov's Model Of Narrative The simplest way of explaining a narrative structure is in terms of philosopher Tzvetan Todorov's Model/ (Todorov born March 1, 1939, Sofia, Bulgaria) This functions on two levels. A state of being which is either stable or unstable. A casual transformation from one state to another via a chain of event. From these two levels Todorov determines five steps in the linear progression of the narrative. These steps are:
equilibrium; a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced. Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood related Todorov's five stages of Narrative
The Dark Knight related Todorov's five stages of Narrative
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