1970's...

This is a film clip from the 1979, Alien. This era was the era of the Second Wave of Feminism were women fought to work and become more independent. This film had changed and challenged the female roles from the 50's and 60's. The character of Ripley, who plays a main female character, helps to do this by presenting herself as a strong, superior, surviving female character. Dyer, 1987, said that, "T.V in the Mid 1980's, take women more seriously", this shows that programmes feature women in a more central way.