Amy and Representation

• Amy and stereotypes

  Stereotype of the media ruining lives - no one likes the press or the paparazzi - enhanced sound of the camera flashes to sound like gunshots = suggestion that the press kill people
• Amy and stereotypes

  Stereotype of men being possessive and controlling - preferred reading of Blake and Mitch being the classic propian villains compared with Amy's nan Cythia being presented as a classic propian hero. Dialogue - "Who's paying? Amy" and "I'm young, I'm clean, I'm a bloody handsome guy, so why am I wasting my time with her?". Mitch presented as the bad guy when he takes a camera crew on Amy's resort in St Lucia
• Amy and stereotypes

  Anti-stereotype of bodyguard Andrew - he wants to help Amy, positive representation of black men and bodyguards.
• Amy and stereotypes

  Stereotype of women - presented as emotional, vunerable, drug and alcoholic addicts and there is mentions of an eating disorder
• Amy and stereotypes

  Black culture is drug culture