Female Characters In How To Get Away With Murder
One show that I absolutely love and watch religiously is How to Get Away with Murder. I feel that How to Get Away with Murder is soaked in developed, strong, multifaceted female characters, and it is wonderful. The genre of the show is considering legal murder mystery which is typically a male-dominated area in the entertainment industry. While we all usually see only the occasional female romantic interest or female victims within these types of shows, How to Get Away with Murder has female legal professionals, female murderers, and female law students in the show. In the book Gender and the Media Gill talks about Masculinities and media studies on page 29 talking about how men dominate the media industry. So, this show that is a woman in
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So often we have women on TV who are never given as much history and depth as their male counterparts, and if they are, it's usually only in relation to their status as love interest/sex toy. In this series, we see multiple women gave interesting back stories and multi-faceted personalities that portray these women as actual people. In How to Get Away with Murder race is irrelevant, everyone will get what they deserve regardless race or sexual preference. In the real world, that rarely happens, so the creator of the show Shonda Rhymes tries to point that out at every chance she gets.
Within gender, in pop culture, we have been learning that females and especially black females have not been represented within the media very well. Within our text, I can connect back to "Reality Bites Back" where they talk about how "The Genesis of Reality TV Racism" and "The Mammy." Within "Gender and the Media" there are chapters that speak on about Masculinities and media studies and gender reversals. You can see this in How to Get Away with Murder because this is a male-dominated field of work and the reversal into a woman and the black dominated show definitely comes off strong on the television
So often we have women on TV who are never given as much history and depth as their male counterparts, and if they are, it's usually only in relation to their status as love interest/sex toy. In this series, we see multiple women gave interesting back stories and multi-faceted personalities that portray these women as actual people. In How to Get Away with Murder race is irrelevant, everyone will get what they deserve regardless race or sexual preference. In the real world, that rarely happens, so the creator of the show Shonda Rhymes tries to point that out at every chance she gets.
Within gender, in pop culture, we have been learning that females and especially black females have not been represented within the media very well. Within our text, I can connect back to "Reality Bites Back" where they talk about how "The Genesis of Reality TV Racism" and "The Mammy." Within "Gender and the Media" there are chapters that speak on about Masculinities and media studies and gender reversals. You can see this in How to Get Away with Murder because this is a male-dominated field of work and the reversal into a woman and the black dominated show definitely comes off strong on the television