Our Girl: Representation of Gender and Ethnicity


Some background to the 2016 series of the TV drama is available here Our Girl Cast

Georgie Lane (Michelle Keegan)
Elvis (Luke Pasqualino)
Captain James (Ben Aldridge)
Jason Raynot AKA Abu (Michael James)
Kicki (Anna Tenta)

How is reality represented in the new series of the BBC TV Drama Our Girl? This is a representation of military experience but the groups it really constructs for the audience focus on ethnicity and gender.

  • gender - how does Georgie meet gender sterotypes and how is she represented as a counter-stereotype?
  • ethnicity

Watch the clip and write a blog post about the episode. Pick one of the two areas of representation and try and write an overview of how you think they are being represented here.



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