How far does the representation of a particular social group change overtime?

The representation of britishness does change over time and this is to do with the role's of women in Britian. In the films Alfie the woman have not a lot of rights and are left as housewives and do not get freedom and this is shown when Annie is only shown inside her apartment cleaning while Alfie comes in and out doing whatever he wants. This contrasts to fish tank where Mia is able to go out of her apartment and back in with nobody stopping her and she has a lot of rights. For example this is when she runs of her apartment in a mood and shows how she doesn't have to stay inside all the time. The theory of Althusser clearly backs this up and this theory is that ideological beliefs of the ruling class of society become the ruling ideologies and in this case the roles of the women over time due to the ideological beliefs of women changing over time which has enabled them to have more freedom which is shown here. I think that the difference in the two films is that women roles have become more valued and are allowed to do what they want they are now equal to men unlike in the 1960's where they had no control over what they did and were just housewives.

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