When compared to modern day television programmes, the startling clarity of how much Britain has changed in the past 50 or so years is shocking.
In this series show, it is strange to remember women were perceived as persons who's best gift to the world was good cooking and a pretty smile, and only a few short decades ago. What's also shocking is that this was quite a while after the many debacles caused by the Suffragettes and Suffragists. Yes, they had achieved the right to vote and the right to work in a stereotypical male workplace during the first World War, but the popular opinion remained that women were fragile and came second to men. This view has now become outdated. Women have almost complete equality with men in regards to the workplace. There are woman doctors, police officers and army recruits, which would have been abnormal in the 1950s. British television programmes like Casualty and Holby City portray women in these roles and the show writers receive no negative response or surprise because of that.
www some reasoned comment regarding the representation of women in the text viewed (though you don't mention the source by name!). Modern comparison is fair as well though of course from a different genre - drama instead of documentary.
ReplyDeleteebi too general in approach. Perhaps you could look at being more specifically analytical about the historical text - Britain on Film - and ensuring that your analysis relates not only to representations of women but to collective identity of women. When you contrast this with a modern text you need to be more specific in your examples - and how those examples represent a change in the public consciousness.
NB. your work is incomplete and there is no evidence of anything beyond this work from two weeks ago. Please ensure that you have completed the work set - it is all on the blog.