Yr 10 SOCIAL STEREOTYPES IN AA FILMS

We analyse the 2014 exam text extract Spy Kids (open here) and we practise question 3 on how the representation of stereotypes. 

The extract is from the film ‘Spy Kids'. (Director: Robert Rodriguez, 2001). We are in Mexico. A mother is telling her daughter a bedtime story about how she met her father. The parents were

both working as spies, for two different sides, and the mother’s mission was take him out’. Characters in the extract:

Ingrid Mother

Carmen Daughter

Gregorio Father

PREP Answer the exam question below that we practised in class. You have the exam answer sheet.

 

3. Discuss the representations in the extract.

Refer to stereotypes in your answer.

Use examples from the extract.

You might consider the representation of:

• gender

•race and nationality

• spies

•family, love and marriage