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Black mirror is a TV series produced by Charlie Booker which he goes into the problems of our modern world. Episode 1 - The National Anthem Episode 1 Shows Prime Minister Michael Callow facing a huge and shocking dilemma involved him performing an inappropriate act with a pig to free Princess Susannah, a member of the Royal Family that has been kidnapped. I think the message behind this episode is to show how powerful the Internet and social media can be and how you can use it for good and bad. The episode also shows the prime minister being forced to do something that he really did not want to but was peer pressured by the society to do what they thought was right, another major factor was when practically the whole world was glued to the screen which lead to them not realising that the princess had been released 30min early which shows how much the media brain washes people. I didn't like this episode because it was quite all over the place and didn't really

Explore how women are represented in the TV shows  EastEnders  and  Hollyoaks   EastEnders  is a British soap opera that has been broadcasted on BBC One since 1985 , which was created by Julia smith  and Tony Holland. Since The c reation of EastEnders there have  been thousands of storylines highlighting various different issues that happen in  day-to-day  life.  Hollyoaks is  also  another soap opera that was broadcasted on channel 4 in 1995 that was created by Phil Redmond.  I have decided to conduct my research on how women are represented in the TV shows Hollyoaks and  EastEnders because  I think that the  way  women are shown in soap operas is very stereotypical There are a  numerous amounts  of  representations  of women in these two TV   shows, which  are mostly   the  stereotypes  of women  yet there are  a  still a  few  positive representations.  The stereotypes a re often things such as  “women are  weak ”,   “all women are  housewives ” ,  and “women are only good

British cinema's gender imbalance worse in 2017 than 1913, says BFI study According to the guardian  The filmography, which analyses more than 10,000 films and 250,000 cast and crew members, reveals that less than 1% of films made between 1913 and 2017 had a majority female crew and only 7% since 2000; only 4.5% of all films have been directed by a woman; and the most popular word in British film titles is “man”, appearing 211 times. “Woman” appears 71 times. Kate Dickie, is known to the filmography as the most credited female actor of the current time  said she was astonished by the statistics she stated “I thought things were getting better and this is horrifically depressing,” she said. “Why is it such a battle? It is not getting better quick enough.”  Also according to the guardian " When it comes to character, stereotypes persist. No woman ever has been cast as an unnamed police sergeant or police inspector in a British film – but women make up 94% of unnamed pr