EXPLORE THE DIFFERENT REPREENTATIONS OF EITHOR WOMAN OR ETHNICITY IN YOUR CHOSEN TEXTS.

 The texts I studied are Sin City, Fish Tank and District 9. Each of these films have different representations of women and ethnicities to have polysemic meanings in order to support the narrative and genre.

Sin City, made in 2007, is a hybrid of film noir and comic book therefore a fictional narrative. In order for the text to attract a larger audience, it includes historical issues and controversial representations about female objectification, women's rights and ????????.

Females in Sin City are represented by a Femme Fatal character role. A femme fatal is a mysterious, seductive woman who lures men to do their jobs normally resulting in deadly situations. In order for men to fall at their feet, the woman must be attractive on the eye. This is shown to the audience through Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze theory. For example, when Hartigan walks into the bar, the camera look up to Nancy on the pole, as we are looking through his eyes. As she turns, the camera caresses her curves which are highlighted through the change of light to soft lighting. It is objectifying Nancy as she is being seen as male property, they all can own and control her at desire.

'Old town' in the narrative is a place where several female prostitutes live and work. In itself this is a negative representation of females, however the polysemic meaning is about them fighting for their rights during the cold war period of the 1940's, where most film noir films are set. This is shown during the show down with the cops, in which Gail and her team of hookers are helped by Dwight to murder them, in the scene called 'the big fat kill'. The prostitutes are fighting for their rights to be equal to men, showing they will not let men defeat or own them anymore, yet will they use them to their advantage. They are simply clinging on to newly gained power after the men returned from the World War 2, like the 'Maltese Falcon' made in the 1940's with the same genre and ideologies.