Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How and why does the representation of the
group or place you have studied reflect and
reinforce dominant values and ideologies?
- Women
- Hegemonic views
of women are
being reinforced
- Texts
- Tomb Raider
- Cathy Come Home
- Brassed Off
- Crash
- Women On The Verge
Of A Nervous
Breakdown
- About A Boy
- My Name is Joe
- Bamboozled
- Stereotypes
- Film institutions reinforce hegemonic
ideology because it is widely accepted by
a mass audience
- They want their product to
appeal to a wide audience
- Could be argued that by challenging hegemony and showing
audiences something that is not widely socially accepted (i.e. a man
being undermined by a woman), audiences will simply reject the text
and it's ideology
- Hegemony is accepted because it has always been reinforced by media
institutions across all 3 media platforms - meaning the majority of people are
(and have) accepted its ideology and it has become part of their own values
- Hegemonic views of women
- Mothers
- Brassed Off
- The stereotype of women being confined
to their domestic roles as mothers is being
reinforced in Brassed Off
- When Phil's girlfriend leaves, she is the one
who is left with the parental responsibility
- When Phil's girlfriend leaves she takes
the kids with her - she has more parental
responsibility than Phil
- Hegemony is also being reinforced when at the end of
the film, she comes back to Phil - this suggests that a
woman needs the help of a man in order to feel secure
- The stereotype women being better mothers is also reinforced
through men
- In Brassed Off, when Phil is left alone with the
kids he does not know how to handle/look after
them
- Men do not know how to do a woman's job
- About a Boy
- Women are presented as clingy
and reliant on men
- The women at the start of the film are constantly calling Will
(the man) wondering when they are going to see him again
- This is reinforcing negative views of
women - that they need the safety and
security of having a man in their life
- Hegemony is also reinforced through the male character
- He chooses to ignore the women who are calling
him - they need him but he doesn't need them
- Male dominance
- Stereotype of women being mothers
- A woman who is divorced - left with the kids
- looking for another man to support her
- Cathy Come Home