Gender Representations in Films.

Gender Representations in Films.

Gender is represented in  Action Adventure film genre's as the male typically being the stronger, more dominant sex and females being stereotyped as 'Damsels in Distress'. This is especially shown in the Action Adventure film 'Spiderman' as the main female character is constantly seen as 'helpless' and 'weak'.

Females are also depicted as being attractive and having a sex appeal to draw in the male audience and make the female audience want to look like her an example of this is . The same applies for male characters as they're shown as being muscular and toned and attractive which brings in a usually large female audience and a male audience.

Female representations are commonly based on being stereotypical in Action Adventure films and most films wont break out of that stereotype as its easier to create a story line. one film that breaks out of this stereotype is 'Lara Croft - Tomb Raider' where the female protagonist is the strong, dominant character and the men are seen as 'weak' and inferior to her. Especially the antagonists as well as her sidekicks. She is also the only female in the film which means that the role of a 'Damsel in Distress' is taken my a male character, meaning that the hero has to be the female. This breaks out of the stereotype immensely.