Avengers Practice Question

How is 'Britishness' represented in this scene in terms of mine-en-scene?

In the 1960's show The Avenger, britishness is represented as very posh which is shown through the carriage that they are sat in and how everything looks very high end and tidy. It is also shown through the clothing that the characters are wearing, and how they look like their upper class and have expensive clothes such as bowler hats and suits.


How is war paranoia/racism represented in this scene through miss-en-scene?

The absence of any other race throughout the series represents the society at the time and how they felt towards any other race, this could be because of the war that had happened and people were afraid of invasion.

What stereotypes were used in ep 1?

There are only white characters.
Women were sexualised during the episode a lot.
Women were though to only be able to look after children and stay at home.

How was the context of the 1960s shown in the different representations used in ep 1?

Females were sexualised a lot throughout the ep especially Emma Peel, in the 1960s females were thought to be only good to stay at home and look after children. However Emma Peel was ahead of her time because of her persona and how she was her own individual without a man controlling her.
Ethnicity was a very controversial subject in the 1960s, because of the sudden amount of foreign ethnicities going to England. In the Avengers there are only white characters which could show the attitudes towards the foreign ethnicities.
In the 1960s if you had a  same sex affair you would have been arrested because it was illegal, this is because religion was a very big part of the community in that time. This is shown through the only affairs being male and female.
In the 1960s class was also a large part of society, where lower class people would work in factories, middle class people would own some land and work 'normal' jobs and upper class people wouldn't work at all and would definitely own land.