Sunday, 22 November 2015

Representation: collage



Stereotypes about women usually range from house-cleaning, motherhood to its other alternative side, for example playing video games.



Stereotypes that Muslim women in their traditional veils are seen as a threat, and this suspicion has unsurprisingly risen from the Paris attacks. Or every ethnicity that is generally supposed to follow Islam do not. 




Representation theories: 








1.) The different groups of people obviously are - the crazy woman, also known to be Tiffany, and instead of being neither a dominant or an alternative stereotype, although it does have hints of alternative representations such as the woman, Tiffany being the dominant and controlling figure against a male character. This in particular challenges Medhurtst's theory as in short, we are known that woman are in fact not generally to be over the man, and are rather conventionally seen as the "damsel in distress", especially in movies. The problem revolves around common knowledge and sense as a divorced women who has had a rough past will most likely be psycho. This then also opens up Richard Dyer's theory that characteristics of a person, despite male or female are responsible for differentiating from different types of groups, e.g. generally man is seen as strong and dominant, but Dyer's theory suggests characteristics are dynamic and vary in each person, and say otherwise. The trailer also demonstrates something similar to media texts i.e. news, because the plot and genre all reflect to the real world - nothing is bizarre like for example, a fantasy genre, so it is completely normal. Also typically from bad stereotypes created by media-shows such as Jeremy Kyle generally have been seen to create a bad image on the women in a relationship.

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