Media Context

• The representation of women in power, Alice specifically as the femme fatale, challenges typical representations of women in crime drama which illustrates how the genre has developed due to cultural influences.
• The representation with more diverse characters addresses the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of ethnic diversity (black characters stereotypically being the perpetrators) in crime dramas.
• Luther is said to have cultural links to the film noir genre and American procedural crime dramas which can be seen in codes of clothing, cinematography in key scenes and the role of the femme fatale.