Representation of Issues in the Media
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- Created on: 07-05-15 14:46
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- Represen-tation of issues in the media today
- As well as representing groups in society, the media also construct represent-tations of issues and sometimes end up creating the issue in the first place
- Body image
- Society has become obsessed with what constitutes beauty
- Body image
- Body Image is represented across a range of texts including
- Gossip magazines where imperfections in the bodies of celebs are highlighted for discussion
- Unrealistic images of perfection in magazines
- Men's Health
- Cosopolitan
- Newspaper images of catwalk models that are size 0
- Images that challenge the represent-tation tend to be tokenistic
- when a media text includes members of a minority group (eg plus sized models) in a glamour mag. This appears to even the balance but as the group is in a minority they have no real power within the text and their difference from the norm is highlighted
- Documentaries raising awareness for the issue
- Body image is an issue represented across a range of texts and targeted at different audiences
- How the image is represented depends on the type of text and the audience it is being sold to
- In magazines women are sold an idealised version of themselves in order to aspire to attain the unattainable and continually buy for example, anti ageing products
- In TV the issue of body image is tackled from several points of view
- May be through consideration of weight, plastic surgery or a dissatisfac-tion with body size
- Generally most of these texts are focussed on and targeted at women
- How the image is represented depends on the type of text and the audience it is being sold to
- Case Study #1 - Cherry's Body Dilemmas
- Explores the issue of body image across a range of women including her own issues
- Documentary
- Includes voice overs, interviews and fly on the wall filming
- Helps to give a valid look at how women feel regarding how society wants the to look
- Case Study #2 - Heat Magazine
- Effectively demonstrates the concept of the male gaze
- women in film are typically objects of the gaze - women on screen are seen as the objects of desire.
- The women are judged y men, the suggestion being that it is en who look at women and so the attention to their body image should be for men
- women in film are typically objects of the gaze - women on screen are seen as the objects of desire.
- What 2000 men REALLY think
- Effectively demonstrates the concept of the male gaze
- As well as representing groups in society, the media also construct represent-tations of issues and sometimes end up creating the issue in the first place
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