5/26/2023 0 Comments Tomb raider anniversaryNot everyone has he money to be so independent. Of course, bell hooks might point to the fact Lara Croft comes from an aristocratic family so she can afford to be independent and traipse around the world in search of lost civilisations and ancient artifacts. In this way, the protagonist seems to validate Gauntlett’s fluidity of identity concept. Since Lara Croft is always depicted posing with her weapons, including on the box art for “Tomb Raider: Anniversary”, it is clear the character transgresses the binary representation of gender because she is active and adventurous. In our introduction to Liesbet van Zoonen, we referred to her description of a combative and aggressive representation of traditional masculinity. …watching Tomb Raider… might encourage girls to become somewhat more independent and feisty, without them needing to directly copy an extensive fight sequence, embark on a perilous quest for ancient artifacts… David Gauntlett It is important to note the first Tomb Raider game was released just after the Spice Girls topped the UK music charts with their single “Wannabe” so the representation of Lara Croft fits in with that new wave of female empowerment. When David Gauntlett first published “Media, Gender, and Identity: An Introduction” in 2002, he suggested the representation of the Spice Girls and their “Girl Power” was a terrific example of how gender identities were more complex than the binary definitions which reduced women to passive housewives.
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