Social, cultural and historical contexts influence representations in television programmes like The Avengers. There are always exam question on how contexts impact on representation, either applied to one of the TV programmes, or to The Observer newspaper.
- We look for evidence about audience's concerns with the Cold War (your text book p.30)
- We note the absence of representations of different ethnicities and sexualities (p.35)
- We consider the changing attitudes to gender roles (your text book p.32)
- Attitudes towards class and the generation gap (your text book p.34)
