Homework

 Gender has been represented stereotypically in this magazine cover because there is dull colours and Max Verstappen is also dressed very stylishly. It has also been made to look very serious with a close up of his face and it is not very colourful.

in “Luther”, the costumes of characters play a significant role in conveying their personalities and the themes of the show, for example if you look at the difference between John Luther and Alice Morgan.

for example, Luther wears a dark suit often complimented by a long coat his clothing is practical yet stylish reflecting his role as a detective

this shows authority and professionalism the tailored suit signify his position as a detective. His clothes suggest that he is professional but doesn’t care about how stylish he actually his.

differently, Alice Morgan dressed very stylish and ‘trendy’. This suggests that Alice cares very much about her appearance and wants to look stylish and feminine. the reason for her wanting to look like this is to make her look like the victim or damsel i’m distress to give other people a false sense of security.

The character John Luther is typical of the crime drama convention in many ways. one of those ways is how he dresses. He dresses very professionally and classy but still remains humble with the way he dresses and does not care a large amount about what he wears. He comes along as quite scruffy some times but this could suggest that he is hard working as being in the police force may be very time consuming.

However, he also does not fit the typical genre of stereotypical genre because he is black. Luther is the first black detective to be in a crime drama series in tv this could make him not typical to the genre.

Finally, Luther is typical of the crime drama genre in the way that he acts in his job and the way that his mind works when solving crimes. For example, when solving the Alice Morgan case it takes him a very short amount of time to figure out that she is the murderer and his playing a trick on all the detectives. This is a typical crime genre convention as he is very good at psychological games and can work our even the most difficult of crimes without that much evidence.