1. men Changing
representations/roles
Gangster films
Rom Coms Star/Performer Jude Law
Working Title Films
British Films Industry
• Love Honour &Obey
• Alfie
• The Holiday
• AI
Small Scale Ideas • The Talented Mr
Ripley
Representations of certain • Sky Captain
groups of people
Franchise
Actors
Bond Films Gender
representations
Products, synergy, branding
Bond girls

2. Representations of British
males in film.
I’ve chosen this question as it
encompasses some of the areas I was
interested in from a variety of the
critical approaches.

3. • How the representations of British men in
Working Title Films differs to the
representations portrayed in films made by
other studios.
• How class, ethnicity and social backgrounds
cause these representations to be different. –
how they are represented.

4. Possible Case Study films:
• Football Factory Working Title Films:
• Snatch • Love Actually
• Love, Honour and Obey • About a Boy
• The Full Monty • Notting Hill
• Green Street • Bridgette Jones’s Diary
• Get Carter • Billy Elliot
• Four Weddings and a
Funeral

5. Actors
• Michael Caine
• Hugh Grant
• Colin Firth
• Danny Dyer
How our perceptions of them influence/are
influenced by the characters they play and the
way we understand them.

6. • How different directors represent British males
differently?- E.g. British vs. foreign
Representations of British people generally being
different depending on the audience it is aimed
at. For example, working title films and their
representations of London and British people
(Notting Hill) is how the American’s imagine a
quintessential English gentleman, in a chocolate
box view of London.

7. • ‘The Angry young Man’ keeps coming up as
something to research.
Also need to print and highlight bits from:
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Typical_Men.html?id=y87qYiZcnocC&redir_esc=y

8. • http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/107896/gender-representations-in-
british-film-trainspotting
• http://revisionworld.co.uk/a2-level-level-revision/sociology/mass-media-
0/media-representations-age-social-class-ethnicity-gender-sexuality-and-
disability