Topic: Representation Of Women In Sex And The City An American Girl In Paris

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REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN SEX AND THE CITY
An American Girl in Paris
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REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN SEX AND THE CITY
An American Girl in Paris
Sex and the City , the extremely popular and award-winning HBO TV show is
often referred to as ``the ultimate chick flick . The show successfully
combines the generic features of a comedy and a romance to the effect of
gluing multitudes , predominantly female , to the screen . The single-girl
pathos appeals to the ever growing audience of single women with
questions raised and answers suggested that are in tune with the issues
around which the life of a contemporary single woman centers - love ,
sex , girl-friends , fashion , and eventually marriage . It is mostly
accepted and widely-advertised as depicting sexually-liberated and
independent women who are in control of their lives . However , some
elements within the show come into conflict with this celebrated sexual
liberation and the messages SATC sends are rather mixed and not always
defying the patriarchal values .
An American Girl in Paris , besides being the Season 6 finale and
therefore providing a dramatic conclusion of the entire plot of the
show , also paved the way for the no less popular Sex and the City : The
Movie . It is the highest rated episode of the whole series and analogous
to its popularity is its importance to the message that the show
ultimately sends to its numerous audience .
SATC has been hailed as groundbreaking for its representation of
independent and successful women who defy traditional conventions
concerning female sexuality and power . It traces the lives of four
contemporary New York women in their 30s and 40s with Carrie Bradshow as
the lead protagonist - a relationship columnist , a sensitive glitterati
whose musings on the life of the single girl as she writes her weekly
column for the The New York Star function as the narrative framework of
the episodes . On her quest for `` .the love , real love .ridiculous ,
inconvenient , consuming , can 't-live-without-each-other love ' as she
puts it in An American Girl in Paris , Part Deux she is accompanied and
supported by her girl-friends whose stereotypical female roles would be
of the sexually promiscuous - Samantha Jones , the successful PR
executive who uses sex as its own end more concerned with pleasure than
intimacy the sexually napve - Charlotte York , the art gallery director
and eternal optimist searching for the perfect man and the sexually
bitter - Miranda Hobbes , the cynical corporate lawyer . Different as they
might be , the SATC foursome has in common their financial independence
and sexual gratification .
Jewellery , fancy clothes and shoes , and chick restaurants as elements of
the mise en scene are instrumental in portraying the protagonists as
women who make their own money , do not have to depend on men and hence ,
do not have to settle . By freeing Carrie , the freelance columnist , from
the workplace , the action is able to occur in different settings , while
still legitimizing her career . We see her typing on her laptop computer
in coffee shops and hotel rooms which...

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