TASK 6

First paragraph 

Feminists over the years have debated on how negative female representation has started from the 70's and 80's. As even though my main texts such as Big Bang theory and 30 rock are contemporary text, if we compare it to historic texts such as Bewitched we can see how the representation of women has improved and how much of it hasn't. (Zeitgeist). Such as how if we see Bewitched was a US sitcom that came out during the 60-70's and if we look at how society was back then in the 60-70's. Relating it to SHEP during that time there was a improvement in women's position during that decade, as they became more independent and more career oriented. But also there was a increase in negative aspects to society, as we saw less women have children, increase in crime rate and increase in inflation, so as relating to women's position in society we can see that bewitched is actually "demonising" women in the sense they are the "witches" of society as they are going out of the stereotype, and it can also refer to how all American women should go back to the norm of being the typical housewife. In addition looking throughout the first episode throughout the husband finds out his wife is a witch he asks his friends for advice, where instead taunting comments are made by the friends saying how "all women" are witches. Which brings the question up of, as how the writer and director is male is he trying to refer to his thoughts of women (showing his prejudice thoughts) or is he parodying the views of American society during that time, this relates to the quote “dream through the dreams of men”, ‘make herself object’ and ‘renounce her autonomy (Jenainati Cathia, Groves Judy: Introducing Feminism (2007).  Showing that how we are viewing a image of the writers reality, referring to cultivation theory as by watching repeated images of women as "house wives" or the playing the emotional roles, society has accepted that view and images that go against this stereotype audiences tend to reject. For example in 30 rock Tina feys role, as a career oriented woman.