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
- Shown performing both social and occupational roles
- Rarely defined by their marital or family status
- 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
- Media transmit the view that masculinity is based upon strength, aggression, competition and violence
- 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
- 'Metrosexual Male' defined by Postmodernist
- 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
- Males represented in the media as: athletic, unemotional, intelligent, competitive and aggressive
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