Media representations of sexuality and disability
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- Created on: 21-05-14 01:46
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- Sexuality
- Dyer- argues homosexual men characters are dominantly 'camp'
- Recently the amount of gay characters as increased and sociologists say this is a result of Tokenism
- Watney- in the 1980's the media blamed AID's on gays. And were labelled carriers of 'The Gay Plague'
- Gerbner- argues there has been symbolic annihilation to homosexual people as they are not realistically portrayed or not shown at all = marginalised
- Craig- claims homosexuals normally have amusing personalities or having to come to terms with being homosexual rather than normal
- Lesbians are shown as a threat to traditional masculinity or for the pleasure of men
- Klein- suggests sexuality is used by capitalism to make profit = pink pound
- Dyer- argues homosexual men characters are dominantly 'camp'
- Disability
- Statistics- 20% of the UK is disabled but 0.4% of characters of TV
- Cumberbatch + Nagrine- No disabled people in Quizzes or current affair programmes. Even politics
- Cerrie Burnell - CBBC presenter
- Cumberbatch + Nagrine- No disabled people in Quizzes or current affair programmes. Even politics
- Karpf- 2 views of disabled people. victims or those who find miracle treatments
- Roper- suggests most disabled people on TV are cute and not a accurate depiction of society.
- Barnes- need of pity, victims, burden, sexually abnormal, incapable of participating in community, abnormal
- Paralympics- doesn't help representations. Still shown on separate channels and at different times however shows what they can achieve
- Statistics- 20% of the UK is disabled but 0.4% of characters of TV
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