Hinterland - Representation

• Tom Mathias

  • Masculine
  • Low angle shot when visiting large home
  • In control, his position as chief inspector
  • Outsider, running in isolated mise-en-scene
  • Long shot alone & isolated
  • Comes from London police force
  • Lives alone in caravan
  • Fly-on-the-wall shots, crafted & enclosed
  • Falls asleep, camera picks up two girls in wall
  • Left family, seems to see the girls a lot
  • Persistent, insistent questioning of potential culprits
  • Doesn't let victims get mental health advice
  • Sexualises Helen's body, climbs down
  • Masculine
  • Grabs suspect, brings him to the ground
  • Comforts suspect in questioning when he cries
  • Action subverts masculine
• Mared Rhys


  • Intersectionality, white woman, middle-class
  • Ambition (gender) but opportunities image & wealth
  • Glass ceiling, not gender
  • Social barrier prevents top jobs in men
  • Patriarchal oppression, effect of socialisation
  • Good mother, intelligent & independent
  • Believes women belong in early domestic life
  • Good mother, kind, maternal
  • Masculine, values efficiency, rationality
• Women


  • Victims
  • Pressured by the patriarchy
  • Realised, agent, subverted
  • Helen domestic cleaver for Baltur
  • Mother of five for Hyl
  • Not sexualised, loose jeans, boots, layers, lack of makeup
  • Normalised, reinforced by Mared loving mother
  • Subverted by Catrin unrest, future
  • Subverted by Jenny destroyer, jealous
  • Subverted by Helen, sadistic level killer
  • Victims, angle shots
• Men


  • Constricted through movement (active)
  • Silence
  • Strength, masculine aggression, gladiators/companions
  • Beard & messy hair, wears blues