Analysis of Gender in 'Cold Feet'

This is an analysis of Gender in 'Cold Feet'. It is based on a four minute clip from the TV drama. After watching a clip of Cold Feet I can see a clear stereotype between males and females. One main stereotype being that females are the gender that stay at home and cook, whilst males go to work and earn money for the family.

The actors/actresses are part of the mise-en-scene of the TV drama. In the first scene we see the wife in the kitchen cooking. This shows a major stereotype which states women should stay home and cook, while the men go out and work. The male character is showed to have just come back from work and sitting at the table waiting for dinner, this shows that the mail character is the head of the family, whilst the female characters positioning in the kitchen would represent her to be the housewife. This type of stereotype is negative because it is not likely for the male of the relationship to be working and the female to be in the kitchen cooking dinner at this day and age.

We see another stereotype in this scene. The wife is walking around the supermarket picking up items and putting them into the shopping basket which her husband is holding. This shows one of the most typican stereo types; when men hold women's bags whilst they are shopping. Then afterwards the husband picks up a product, and the wife picks up the same product but even bigger and more expensive. This causes the husband to complain about the price of the product, this is a stereotype because the males are usually the ones to try to get the cheaper product but the females want the best possible product to satisfy their needs. Men see this stereotype as negative but women see it obviously as a positive.

The representation of gender is shown through mise-en-scene. Most of the representations in this clip have been inaccurate and old fashioned e.g. a common housewife figure.