Theories applied to this case study

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  • Gender performative- viv performs masculine traits in her role as an officer, she will even walk into a mens toilet if necessary
  • PERFORMING AS A WOMAN- viv can also subvert back to performing as a woman when showing her soft and caring side, - this can link to Judith Butler's Gender Fluidity theory stating women and men can perform masculinity and femininity
  • Cultivation theory- passive audience- Gerbner would say that his effects theory called cultivation theory that television appears to cultivate people's ideologies and beliefs- the more violence depicted against women in programmes like No Offence and The Killing the more audiences will normalise this and expect it,