Representation of Gender- wire in the blood

Representation of Gender. This clip is from a tv show called wire in the blood. It shows two police detectives that are trying to solve a murder or homicide of a teenage girl. The clip shows a few camera shots like the panning shot when the two of them are walking out of the house; this is showing that they are in a conversation. They are arguing about the way that the women detective treated the people inside the house that are the victims parents.

The male is saying that the female detective is not doing her job properly, this could be a representation of gender because women are often criticised and seen to be inferior to working than men. This is kind of shown because the women wants the mans help but he believes that she Is doing her job wrong so he doesn’t attempt to help her. She begs him to help her, this is quite stereotypical because women are often seen to be inferior to women and so this is showing that the women needs the mans help in order to do the job. In the end he decides to help her and asks her for the files about the murder. It then flicks to a scene where the male is analysing the files that she has given to him. It shows him thinking about them and he seemed to be able to figure out something about the murder.

This could be a representation of gender because the male is shown to be better at figuring out what happened than the women did.

The next scene was the gang in the house, these are men who seem to be homeless but all live in one run down house. These men are drinking and smoking and stereotyping some men to be lazy and worthless to anyone. One of the men is a obvious leader of a group and has obvious power and he is very violent to one of the men that tries to talk to him, this is by putting his head through a wall. This is showing that men are used to being controlled by a boss or leader and stereotyping that some men are stronger than others. There is also a good editing bit in this scene because the strong and fearless leader asks one of the men where the normal boss man is, and he says he has been missing. There is a obvious flashback to a man being tied up in rope and he has been gagged suggesting that the people know where he is but do not want to say where he is. This scene is showing large amount of gang violence and that there is mostly males in gangs.

In the last scene there is the male detective who has to look after the female detectives son. The Female detective is a single mother who stereotypes to be unable to look after their children when they are at their jobs or out. This is evident because the female detective had an argument with her old nanny and she left now she has no one to look after her son so she had to get a work mate to do it for her. The child blames himself for the nanny leaving because he called her ‘mummy’ this is quite unnatural for a child of his age to take responsibility for his own actions so it could be saying that he is a clever child. The child also worries about his mother although not wanting to sound to worried because he doesn’t want to sound weak because men don’t normally want to sound weak in front of other males. He worries that she doesn’t come home early but when she does she is always angry and depressed.