Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Initial Ideas: Representation
- Stanley Cohen
- believes that particular groups in society are
demonized and marginalized through negative
representations.
- Angela McRobbie
- says that men and women are often
represented through stereotypes in the
media and are often shown in traditional
gender roles
- women are often shown as
weaker, victims, mothers,
carers
- men are often shown as aggressive,
strong, managers, leaders
- Vladimir Propp
- Propp's theory of narrative suggests that media texts often represent
particular characters in certain ways in order to make them easily
identifiable to the audience.
- Hero
- Princess
- Villain
- Donor
- Dispatcher
- Laura Mulvey
- believe's that women are often objectified in the media
- the audience watch in the perspective of a heterosexual man
(this is called the 'male gaze'), and are seen as sex objects
- believes there are usually only two roles for women:
- the virgin
- the whore
- Recognised as the "virgin/whore dichotomy"
- Levi Strauss
- Media texts often represent characters in
terms of binary opposites
- Good vs Evil
- Weak vs Strong
- Girl vs Boy