Feminist Explanations Of Media Representations

Question 1

Mulvey

Answer 1

Male gaze to characterise cinema as an instrument, carried out a semiology, research reforestation of women within films, examples; Disney princesses, transformers

Question 2

Wolf

Answer 2

Women conformed in buying into and in the male image of what a woman should look like, what she coins to ‘beauty myth’, ‘ideal’ represtation if d
Feminity as a backlash against women’s movements pane potential developments that have been made

Question 3

Whelehan

Answer 3

Study into men’s magazines,p such as FHM, Maxim and Loaded, overdue the message of feminism, magazines promoted a ‘laddish culture’

Question 4

MCRobbie

Answer 4

States that generally magazines do have an impact in the identity of their readers, magazines have a distant focus on fashion, lifestyle as the ‘ideal’, media example: Heat and Closer