How has the role of women changed in Media over the years

In Dracular 1931 the role of women was viewed as the madona. An innocent, helpless, fragile women being prayed upon by a monterous vampire man. In the film, the woman was dressed in white, in which represents innocence and she was also well groomed. This shows that women were seen to be be protected by men and also made them look helpless due to their image and speech. The actress in Dracula is alone, sleeping as Dracula enters her roomand this automatically puts her in a weaker position as no one is around to save her, therefore if anything bad happened she would have suffer alone and unprotected.

However, in 28days later(2002) the role of women has been largly subverted. Selena is not viewed as the madona or as a whore, instead she is viewed as a fighter full of action. She takes control, fights and is extremely dominant. She also doesnt hesitate to tell her male companions what is on her mind or give them orders and direction when necessary. Along with this she is not sexualised, hence therefore subverting the role of women as well as their representations in horror films. Selena is the strongest character in 28 days later which in itself shows women in a positive light as she is one of the main characters plus she is the strongest and knows exactly what to do and when to do it. the film itself portrays women in a positive way and shows there equality to men.

Normally in horror films women are seen as less equal and more vunerable to men but there are some hooror films which do not conform to the stereotypes of women and men at all but they do show there equality. An example of a horror film that does this is every SAW. In SAW all men and women are tortured equally. They all suffer the same pain and suffering throughout the film, each completing a different task of torture. In addition to this both men and women are sweaty and messy, some women are sexulised in the films but the majority are not.