Thursday, 8 November 2012

Gender and Ethnicity


Gender and Ethnicity

Laura Mulvey -> Male gaze -> Visuals pleasures for men, seeing women from the mens point of view 

Ethnography -> A form of research where the researcher attempts to understand the culture by becoming a part of it

Representation -> the media construct versions of people, places etc., through media texts -> representations of gender increasingly challenge traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity 

Gendered consumption -> The way that gender affects our consumption of media texts

Almy et al -> media representations of gender are important because they enter the collective social conscience and reinforce culturally dominant (hegemonic) ideas about gender which represent males as dominant and females as subordinate.

Judith Butler -> gender roles are socially constructed 

Stuart Hall -> Negative representation of black people in period films -> negative stereotypes as reinforcing dominant ideologies

Sexism -> Discrimination on the basis of sex -> especially against women -> patriarchy is the main cause

Howard Becker -> Self fulfilling prophecy living up to label attached to you

David Gauntlet 

Red Herrings

BFI -> British Film Industry

Folk Devil -> Groups in society, that are targeted or demonised by the media

Hybrid -> Cross between one film genre and another 

Media Dependency Theory -> Audiences depend on media information to meet needs and reach goals, social institutions and media systems interact with audiences to create needs, interests, and motives in the person

Pixar -> Digital animation company 




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