_{Focus Group for media Critical Research} 

_{This is the question that I will be asking all my focus groups; Question: How are the female roles represented in the original and the remake film genre film noir.} 

_{For my focus group I will get a few different age ranges, to compare the different generations that the genre film noir has effected. My first focus group was with middle aged women age ranging from 40-50 years of age. Also in the focus group I showed the women some scenes from “The Big Sleep” original and remake.} 

_{The Response that was common was that women in the original seemed to be very independent but is also second best to the male character. The focus group seemed to identify the typical female roles characteristics, The femme Fatale was “The Bitch”, There is a house wife role who is there to represent the typical 1930’s women.} 

_{My focus group talked about how the women are the support for the male characters in the film noir genre. And are in the films to look pretty. This was challenge by some of the women saying that the character like the femme fatale makes the film noir genre because of the typical story lines, where the male lead is always enticed by the femme fatale.} 

Synopsis of The Big Sleep 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/synopsis

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/plotsummary

Research about The Big Sleep

• http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/12/bigsleep.html
• http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2005/10/big-sleep-1946-101005.html\