Representation of Gender (Women)

A2 Example Research Essay

Representation of women

 

Representation of gender - Women from Amanda Simmons

Representation of women in the media.

Miss representation website: http://therepresentationproject.org/films/miss-representation/



 Gender Bias report and research into gender representation in the media today: http://seejane.org/

Representation of Gender: female case studies

Representation of women in a positive light, subverting to the usual stereotypes, can be used as case studies to help with your exam.

Salma Hayek representation: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/23/salma-hayek-facebook-twitter-selfie

Dove (2015) Choose Beautiful Campaign


Dove website: www.dove.co.uk/en/Tips-Topics-and-Tools/Latest-Topics/choose-beautiful.aspx

Hunger Games, MockingJay Part1 (2014) film:

 

This Girl Can

Website: This Girl Can: Feel Inspired

The Male Gaze vs. The Female Gaze

A very interesting article about the male vs female gaze. Have a read here: http://mscinephile.kinja.com/the-male-gaze-vs-the-female-gaze-1566345502


"[T]he objectification of men is a false equivalency to the objectification of women, because what's being fetishized is strength. Virility, capability, vigor, fortitude. Power. In a world where men actually do have power. You can't say the same about the standard objectification of women, which usually revolves around sexually-charged parts like breasts and buttocks, not biceps. In addition, "sexy" images of women generally involve us being relaxed, lying down, finger in the mouth like a child. Submissive, pliant, docile."

The Representation Project: Rewrite the Story

Gender Representation

Gender representation from wmorris

 

Sc2220 lecture 6 2011 from socect

Laura mulvey, the male gaze from christimothy12

Representation Of Women In The Music Industry from Chloewardmediablog

Representation of Issues : Binge Drinking

How is binge drinking represented in this clip?

What camera shots are being used? Why?

What mise-en-scene is being used? Why?

February 7th 2014 Homework

Age Representation

You need to collect examples of Representation of Age in the media.

1) Young people

2) Old people

3) Stereotypes of age in media

Points to remember

• The representation has to come from a specific media text. ie (Old age is represented negatively in a recent article in the Daily Mail, the article is about ............)

• The representation should be contemporary (within the last 2/3 years)

• How is the representation created ? Visual Image, Language, Mode of Address etc

Try to get Rich texts that you can use for Representation of Age/Gender etc.

This is a good example as you can use it for both Age and Gender.

Gender Representation Case Study Task

Find the following examples and write how they link to audience, what visual/technical/audio codes identify them as that category:

FEMALE

1. Sexualized/objectified Female (advertisement) 
2. Domestic woman (film/tv show) 
3. Post feminism (music video)

MALE

1. Dominant/aggressive male (advertisement/music video) 
2. Male stereotype, such as: geek/jock/action hero/joker (tv show/film) 
3. Metrosexual/new man (from a newspaper/magazine example)

The Representation Project

Fantastic website on representation of gender in the media: http://therepresentationproject.org/

How to Avoid Gender Stereotypes

An interesting video from TED

Gender in children's television and films

Gender in children’s television worldwide from Mavaddat Javid

Read the full article here: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/hzi9402.html

Gender roles in Disney Films:
http://filmandmedia12.wikispaces.com/Gender+Roles+and+Stereotypes+Found+in+Disney+Films

Race and gender in Contemporary Hollywood

News, Gender and Power

Representation of Gender in the media

Representations of gender in the Media from Jaskirt Boora

The representation of men in the media from smcmediastudies

The representation of women in the media from smcmediastudies

Representation in the media gender from Craig Osborne

Representation of Age

Age presentation from david-rowland

Representation of Gender (Men)