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Good, strong opening. Great to see reference to gender and feminism on the first slide. Structure is solid and shows excellent knowledge of the text with focus on female and male characters. Nervous start (lack of rehearsal?) but delivery becomes a lot more confident and actually not reliant on notes (useful for future presentations - having notes as back-up is fine) Presentation is focusing quite equally on both genders - that is absolutely fine but something to reflect on with regards to the critical investigation. Excellent focus on characters - detailed and full of insight. I hadn't considered the number of stereotypes in addition to the handful of characters that subvert expectations. Great quotes - I'd have liked to see more time/opportunity to discuss these ideas further with regards to feminism. Significance: 4 Structure: 5 Simplicity: 3 Rehearsal: 2 Q&A: Excellent opening Q on gender - focus on women and men. Another good question on Peeta - ...

Media Representations Who is being represented? In what way? By whom? One example of character representation in 'The Hunger Games' film franchise is Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist, who is represented as being noticeably less feminine than a female stereotype would indicate. A conventional female stereotype would suggest that women are generally weak, emotional, unable to lead, less intelligent than men, polite, "prim and proper", gossipy etc. Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen subverts all these stereotypes, proving to be strong, emotionally stable, the leader of the franchise's rebellion, extremely intelligent, arrogant, athletic and dignified. Suzanne Collins, the author of the books from which the films are adapted   has described Katniss as being an independent strong survivalist, lethal, but good at thinking outside the box.  Other female characters in the films including President Coin, Johanna Mason and Cressida also tend to subvert t...