Thursday, 28 April 2016

Strong women roles

One of the most obvious developments in recent pop culture has been the emergence of the icons and rhetoric of 'girl power', a phrase slapped into mainstream culture by the Spice Girls and subsequently incorporated into the language of government bodies as well as journalists, educationalists, culture critics, and pop fans themselves. Magazines for young women are emphatic in their determination that women must do their own thing, be themselves, and/or be as outrageously sassy and sexy as possible. Several recent movies have featured self-confident, tough, intelligent female lead characters. Female pop stars sing about financial and emotional independence, inner strength, and how they don't need a man; and the popular mantra of self-help books is that women can become just as powerful as these icons, if they cultivate their confidence and self-belief, and draw up a plan of self-development.


The emergence of the increasing amount of strong women roles has been included in many films that have come out in the past few years such as hunger games with Jennifer Lawrence and star wars the force awakens with Daisy Ridley 
With our production we have also included a strong women role where we see the character of "Libby" taking the lead. Whereas the stereotype would be a "damsel in distress" which we have chosen not include in our production.

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