mr natton homwork

One of the first groups to draw attention to the politics of representation in the media were the feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s, who pointed out the limited range of representations of women in the media.

The 1960s and 1970s saw a resurgence of feminist activity, including the women's liberation movement and the more mainstream feminist groups. This period has been called the Second Wave of feminism, with the first wave usually thought of as being from 1848-1920, when women won the vote. what did the feminists of the 1960s and 1970s want? Feminism changed many women's lives and created new worlds of possibility for education, empowerment, working women, feminist art and feminist theory. For some, the goals of the feminist movement were simple: let women have freedom, equal opportunity and control over their lives.

The feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on dismantling workplace inequality, such as denial of access to better jobs and salary inequity, via anti-discrimination laws. In 1964, Representative Howard Smith of Virginia proposed to add a prohibition on gender discrimination into the Civil Rights Act that was under consideration. He was greeted by laughter from the other Congressmen, but with leadership from Representative Martha Griffiths of Michigan, the law passed with the amendment intact. However, it quickly became clear that the newly established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would not enforce the law's protection of women workers, and so a group of feminists including Betty Friedan decided to found an organization that would fight gender discrimination through the courts and legislatures. In the summer of 1966, they launched the National Organization for Women,which went on to lobby Congress for pro-equality laws and assist women seeking legal aid as they battled workplace discrimination in the courts.


Task 2

"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. It later appeared in a collection of her essays entitled Visual and Other Pleasures, as well as in numerous other anthologies. Her article, which was influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, is one of the first major essays that helped shift the orientation of film theory towards a psychoanalytic framework.

Word meanings:

Voyeurism is the sexual interest  in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activiststy, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.^[1]

The voyeur does not normally interact directly with the subject of his/her interest, who is often unaware of being observed. The essence of voyeurism is the observing but may also involve the making of a secret photograph or video of the subject during an intimate activity.

Narcissism

inordinate fascination withoneself; excessive self-love;vanity.

Scopophilia

the obtaining of sexual pleasureby looking at nude bodies, eroticphotographs

media homework.

Representation of women in the media

 

 

A Positive representation of a woman:

 

Adele

Adele is an example of a positive woman within the media. Most woman are perceived in a more negative light and the media often make stories and twist words to make people look at them as if they are not good role models to look up to. Adele is different because she is represented as a successful and powerful woman who empowers women within the songs she sings. Adele is confident within herself and doesn’t let what people say about her affect the way she acts and she does what she believes is best.

 

In the media we always see pictures of celebrity’s on nights out so drunk that they don’t even know they are doing whereas we don’t see articles or pictures of Adele in magazines being seen in that way, this is a good representation of Adele because she isn’t just seen as someone who always drinks alcohol and someone who is irresponsible and the younger generation could look up to her for a good reason because of this.

 

The internet plays a big part of the representation of women within the media, you can simply google a person’s name and everything that’s ever been wrote about them will come up within seconds. While googling most celebrity’s negative stories will come up about them however when you google Adele one thing that comes up is the amazing work she does for charity.  Adele has performed in numerous charity concerts throughout her career. In 2007 and 2008 she performed at the Little Noise Sessions held at London's Union Chapel and all of the proceeds from the concerts she donated to Mencap which works with people with learning disabilities, Adele doing things like that is a positive way of her being represented because it perceives her to be a kind woman who people can look up to. That is just one of the many charity things she has done.

 

Adele is also represented to be a kind women who loves her family. She once took time off writing music so she could spend some quality time with her family. She also has a daughter and the media show how much of a good mum she is and you can clearly see how much she loves and adore her child and wants the best for her. Adele also has a long term boyfriend who is also the father of her child, this is a good thing because she isn’t represented as someone who goes from boy to boy.

 

Overall Adele is mainly represented as a strong, confident, kind and family loving women. This is a positive way to be seen and many people can look up to Adele.

 

A negative representation of a women:

Katie Hopkins

When people hear the name Katie Hopkins most people feel the same way, angry. This is because the way she represents herself within the media. Katie is seen as an argumentative woman who thinks she is always right, she is often on talk shows like ‘this morning’ putting her opinion across in front of the world, her opinion is what makes most people dislike her, she often talks about topic that people feel strongly about and most of the time she has a different opinion to everyone else. If you Google her name the majority of the things that come up are negative. I goggled weather people think if she is a good role model or not and this survey come up and as you can see only 11% of people said she was one. 

 

Katie Hopkins is seen as a bully and is often shaming people about their looks. She shames overweight people and puts them down constantly about the way they look. she feels so strongly about her opinion on overweight people that once she made a TV show of her putting on a lot of weight and shown herself losing it within a short period of time, she done this to prove her point of that overweight people are just lazy and it’s easy to lose the weight, while doing the TV show Katie did say she found it more difficult than she thought she would, after hearing her say this many people thought she would be nicer to overweight people and respect them more but this was not true, she is still on day time TV slating people. As well as being a bully Katie often contradicts herself on the things she says, she once said she doesn’t like it when parents name their children after places like countries even though her child is called ‘India’, when question about this live on TV she still thought her opinion was right even though she had done it herself and that it’s not the same when she does it.

 

Overall Katie is a really bad role model as she is represented in a way where she is seen as a bully and an argumentative person who always thinks she’s right.