Fichas
Representation
Fichas del conjunto (22)
- 1Who came up with the grammar of race concept?Stewart Hall
- 2What are the three 'roles' in grammar of race?savage
slave
clown - 3What are the features of the slave character?Happy to serve
Kind
Relieves white guilt - 4What are the features of the savage character?Could turn nasty at any minute
No more than animals
Justifies slavery and treatment of black people - 5What are the features of the clown character?Innate humour
Not sure if laughing at or with - 6Who came up with the concept of Orientalism?Edward Said
- 7What is orientalism?The lens with which the west see the east
- 8What does orientalism portray the east as?Dangerous
Violent
Uncivilised - 9What does Orientalism do?Blurs ethnicity race and religion
Exaggerates and imagines differences - 10What is the main issue with orientalism?It is not innocent, it is politically motivated
- 11What is the male gaze and who came up with it?Laura Mulvey
Women connote a 'to-be-looked-at-ness'
Audience positioned as men, male characters do the looking - 12What is the female gaze?A source of empowerment
Men objectified for women to do the looking
But objectification is slightly different - 13What is a post-feminist perspective?We now have equality
We can and should adopt traditional ideas of femininity if we want to as a source of empowerment - 14What are the beauty ideals women are expected to conform to?Young
Flawless
Always an element of transformation - 15What is currently counteracting beauty ideals?Dove campaign etc
- 16What are some of the traditional role and attributes for men?Authority
Activity
Women
Sports
Business
Family - 17What is Dyers concept?Instabilities of the male pin up
- 18What are the three components of the instabilities of the male pin up?Look away/Uninterested/Confrontational (not enjoying gaze)
Activity (eg doing up cufflinks)
Overcompensation of muscles etc - 19What does the instabilties of the male pin up ensure?Men are not passive
- 20What is hypermasculinity?Excessive displays of male qualities
- muscles
- violence
- sex - 21What is masculinity of crisis?Frustration/loss of identity
Reflects social anxieties
Characters may feel emasculated or try to assert dominance - 22What genre really explores masculinity in crisis well and often?British Social Realism
Información
- Descripción
- AS level Media Studies Fichas sobre Representation, creado por Shannon Hebron el 26/04/2017.
- Creado por
- Shannon Hebron · abr 2017
- Actualizado
- 26 abr 2017
- Visitas
- 0
- Valoración