1970s...

The 70s still showed females as sex symbols, but also gave them more power, and decent roles! For instance, Princess Leia in Star Wars.
The film ‘Frenzy’ by Alfred Hitchcock, portrays the first female shown in the trailer as weak, as she has been murdered and is floating in the river. She is seen as the victim… “The women usually die” [ROOT, 18]. Similarly the film Superman, shows the female as the helpless victim who needs saving…[Proppien theory] she is a princess and he is the prince who saves her. However other films such as Alien, show Ripley to be the saviour subverting the stereotype.

FRENZY



SUPERMAN 1978- just the making with various clips