1. Representation of Gender
in Captain America

2. Steve Rogers/ Captain America

3. PRE-TRANSFORMATION STEVE
What does this tell us about
Steve? How does he compare
to the other recruits?

4. Think about the camera angles here and Steve’s body
language

5. Think about Steve’s positioning here, the colour of his
costume and how others are responding to him.

6. Appearance?

7. What does this scene tell us about Steve?

8. Steve’s
actions
here?

9. What does
this incident
tell us about
Steve? How
does he
differ to the
others?

10. What
happens
here and
what does
it tell us?

11. Comment on what this still reveals about Steve? How
does the media language help emphasis this?

12. In the car on the way to Stark’s lab – how does the
media language show us Steve is awkward with women?

13. TRANSFORMATION
How does Steve look at this point? What elements create a
sense of his frailty/ vulnerability?

14. How has Steve changed and how does the media
language emphasise this?

15. How has he changed in relation to other people?

16. What is the significance of this close-up? What does it tell us
about the new Steve?

17. POST-TRANSFORMATION STEVE
Comment on significance of costume and how Steve acts
after his transformation.

18. PLAY-ACTING
THE HERO
What creates a
sense that Steve is
not yet being a real
hero?

19. Compare the
scenes where
Steve performs to
the public in the
US and the troops
in Europe. What
does this tell us?

20. In this POV shot we see Steve’s doodles after he has been
booed off stage – what does his drawing connote and what
does it tell us?

21. PLAYING THE HERO FOR REAL
How is Steve’s heroism shown to be
more real in this phase of the film?

22. Think about
camera
angles, use of
colour and
the altered
response of
the troops.

23. Who is
seducing
who here?
How do
you
know?
How has female
attention
altered since
Steve’s
transformation?

24. What
do
these
shots
tell us
about
the
new
Steve?

25. After Bucky’s death, we find Steve in the bombed out
pub – analyse what this reveals about our action hero
and how it does this. What does it suggest about the
relative significance of men and women and how?

26. What
qualities
are
revealed
here?
Note the
way the
shield is
shown.

27. What do
these show
of Steve’s
changed
role?

28. How does Steve
face his death?
What does the
close-up of
Peggy's photo
reveal about
him?

29. STEVE TODAY
What image do
these create of
our hero at the
film’s close?

30. Analyse how the hero is represented in the film’s closing
minutes – think about camera angles, costume, setting etc.

31. Agent Peggy Carter

32. First glimpse of Peggy – what’s our first impressions? How
would you describe her and what do these details tell us?

33. Very early on, Peggy punches one of the recruits who
steps out of line – what does her action here tell us? Did
her response surprise you as much as it surprised the
recruit?

34. During the transformation scene, Peggy shouts for it to
stop when she hears Steve scream – what does this shot
reveal about her tough exterior?

35. When Steve emerges from the pod, this is Peggy's first
glimpse of the new Steve? What does her expression tell
you?

36. Peggy pursues
the assassin –
what do these
shots tell us about
her?

37. What does this scene suggest about Peggy? Can you
remember her reaction to her rescue?

38. How is
Peggy
presented
to us here?
Where are
these
scenes set?

39. How is her
representation
different in
these scenes?
What details
show us this?

40. Testing Steve’s
shield – what
do her actions
here reveal
and what doe
Steve’s
reaction tell us
about her?

41. While Steve and
his gang are off
on missions, what
does Peggy do?
What does this
tell us? How is
her role in these
images different?

42. How is Peggy
shown to us
here?

43. Describe how
these shots
present her
to us?

44. How is Peggy
shown in this
shot and what
does it
suggest about
her role
compared to
Steve’s?
How is she
shown, as
Steve
plunges to
his death?

45. How is she
shown
here?
What photo
of Steve
does she
value? Why?

46. Other Men

55. Other Women