Links to Theorists and theories

Question 1

Strauss

Answer 1

• binary oppositions
• man as civilised, empowered, attractive, western

Question 2

Barthes

Answer 2

• narrative codes
• hunter, trophy, winner, jungle adventurer, hero
• man as driver of action
• TA intrigued by enigma code in narrative

Question 3

Mulvey

Answer 3

• male gaze
• woman seen as objects
• conversely men seen as ‘spectacle’ - celebration

Question 4

Butler

Answer 4

• gender a performance
• separate to biology

Question 5

Gramsei

Answer 5

• hegomsonic values
• dominate naturalised beliefs adopted by mass society to benefit wealth and powerful, control and sex appeal via this product

Question 6

Hall’s

Answer 6

• preferred reading
• men can have ‘it all’ (power, sex, status, attractiveness)