REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN SEX AND THE CITY An American Girl in Paris

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...