“You know me I don’t really believe in marriage; now botox on the other hand works every time”[1]
Do representations of females in Sex and the City: The movie differ from representations of females in past media texts? If so, how?
In past media text women have been portrayed as passive and their sole purpose on screen is for the male audience’s sexual excitement. Following the hit series Sex and the City, HBO has also brought us Sex and the City: The movie. The characters Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda have ‘sexual freedom, opportunity and the ability to be successful’[2]. So how does Sex and the City’s representation of women differ to women that were once represented as inferior to men, naive and ‘symbolically annihilated’[3] from the media?
[1] Sex and the City: The movie.
[2] Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell: Sohn,Amy (2002) Pg 24
[3] Tuchman, Gaye (1978) -Introduction: the symbolic annihilation of women by the mass media.
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