1. Gender Roles in Crime Dramas
Bones, Castle and Women
Gender Roles in Crime Dramas

2. Spoiler Warning

3. Project area and Importance
Media Studies and Gender Studies
Media Portrayal affects the Viewer
Stereotypes
Represents
Media is Obsessed with Crime
Crime Dramas

4. Method Used: Content Analysis
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Method Used: Content Analysis
Leadership Roles
Personality Traits

5. Forensic Anthropologist who helps identify human remains for the FBI.
Dr. Temperance Brennan
Agent Seeley Booth
Forensic Anthropologist who helps identify human remains for the FBI.
She works at the Jeffersonian Institute.
FBI Agent who works with the Jeffersonian Institute to solve homicides.
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6. Detective Kate Beckett
Richard Castle
NYPD Detective at 12th Precinct.
Ends up partnered with Castle when he needs to do ‘research’ for a new character
Is the inspiration for Nikki Heat
New York Times Bestselling Author.
Best friends with the New York Mayor
Uses this to become partnered with Beckett so that he can do ‘research’

7. Brennan on Bones Booth on Bones Castle on Castle Beckett on Castle
Gender
M/W/Trans*
Leadership Roles
# OF SCENES
Honesty
Cognitive Ability
Drive
Expertise in Relevant Field
Personalized leadership motive
Socialized Power Motive
Big Five Personality
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Openness to experience
Neuroticism
Extraversion

8. Expertise in Relevant Field Cognitive Ability
Leadership traits
Honesty
Drive
Expertise in Relevant Field
Cognitive Ability
Personalized Leadership Motivation
Socialized Power Motive

9. Openness to Experience Extraversion Neuroticism
Personality traits
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Openness to Experience
Extraversion
Neuroticism

10. Temperance Brennan

11. Agent Seeley Booth

12. Detective Kate Beckett

13. Richard Castle

14. Slightly more personality
Conclusion
Women
Consistent
Personality
Men
Gain
Slightly more personality

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