Thursday 27 September 2012

G321 REPRESENTATION OF GENDER



The extracts are from Made In Dagenham (dir. Nigel Cole 2010), a dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Characters in the extracts:
  • Rita (young Ford machinist who becomes the machinists' spokesperson)
  • Connie (older Ford machinist  who is struggling with family problems)
  • Albert (Union rep)
  • Monty (the shop steward)
  • Mr Hopkins (Ford management)
  • Lisa Hopkins (his wife)
  • Mr Clarke (school teacher)
The scenes: 
  1. The Union meeting with management after lunch at a Berni Inn   
  2. Rita confronts Mr Clarke for beating her son
  3. Lisa visits Rita to report that Mr Clarke has been dismissed
PREP: Discuss the ways in which the extracts construct representations of gender using the following:
  • Mise-en-scene 
  Editing
  Sound 
  • Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
In the first scene, we see ....

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