14 dec

 laura is a strong working female. she works in london and wears the pants in the relationship.

mattie is intelligent and embodies the teenage archetype perfectly. she is curious and questions the world around her.

anita is presented as an object that can be bought. she is often sexualised

niska works at a brothel and is highly sexualised. her purpose is pleasure

ties into van zoonen's theory

joe is seen doing domestic tasks which apposes gender roles. he is also unable to cope with these tasks alone so he needs the help of anita (a woman)

toby and joe sexualise anita

men appear in positions of physical and cultural power

sophie is seen as cute and vulnerable

teenagers feeling detached from society

elderly is seen as weak and vulnerable

ethnic diversity appeal to ethnicity minorities

most of the ethnic minority characters jobs in the show is to obey or be a slave

How and why have certain people been under-represented or misrepresented? 15 marks

In Les Reventants there is a lot of underrepresentation of minorities. The main character are predominantly white, middle-class people as seen by the poster of the series. There are a mixture of ages, with kids like Viktor, teenagers like Camille and middle-aged with Julie. 

However, there is a clear lack of races in the show. The cast is fully white and has little to no representation for other races. This makes people who aren not white feel under-represented as they don't have anyone in the show like them.  The reasoning for this under-representation could be due to France's racist history and the creators not wanting to anger their audience. In 2012 representation was a less prominent feature of media and backwards opinions did no help it as older people still had underlying racist opinions, so with Les Revenants target audience mainly being middle-aged people Canal + may have seen it as a risk to include better representation.

Moreover, elderly people may perceive themselves to be misrepresented as being weak and vulnerable 

 

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