Male representations in the media

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  • Created on: 13-05-17 18:34
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  • Male representations in the media
    • Males represented in the media as: athletic, unemotional, intelligent, competitive and aggressive
      • Rarely defined by their marital or family status
        • Shown performing both social and occupational roles
          • Portrayed as being 'incompetent' in domestic roles
          • Outnumber females in tv programmes e.g. in soaps and the news
    • EASTHOPE- masculine myth
      • Media transmit the view that masculinity is based upon strength, aggression, competition and violence
        • This is biological determined and is a natural goal for males to achieve
        • This is a false creation that can't be reached
    • The 'New Man'
      • 80s saw an emergence of the new man in magazines
      • Suggested that men can be vulnerable, should treat women as equal, should care for their appearance and should take an active role in fatherhood
        • 'Metrosexual Male' defined by Postmodernist
          • Masculinity responding to growing economic independence of women
      • In touch with their feminine side- useful around the home and equal to their female partners
    • GAUNTLETT
      • RETRIBUTIVE MASCULINITY
      • Magazines still encourage traditional masculinity
      • Attempt to reassert traditional masculinity I.e. birds, booze and footbsll

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