Representation; how the media deals with present social issues - ‘’It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements’’(Wikipedia) this quote creates an interesting point as it’s through representation that society is defined as being central, a piece of aesthetics and literature. Stereotypical representations aren’t always negative but frequently the media fails to give a true image of what a particular nation or region is like. This can greatly influence a person's understanding of an area if it is the only representation they have seen.
When looking into the issues of representation, the media often exacerbates an existing problem. Racial stereotypes are often a social myth and …show more content…
Even Disney Princesses are another stereotypical example of the male gaze. Essentially Disney is a big conglomerate company that incorporates the male gaze into so much of what it produces. The storyline is that the female protagonist can only find peace when they have fallen in love with a man, suggesting that as a woman your political worth is reduced to your marriageability. “Tabloid stories about trans people are often exploitative, invasive of privacy, inaccurate, irrelevant or intended to drum up transphobia in their reader shows how hostile many people are to trans people in current society.” (Benjamin Butterworth. (2014). Major LGBT Foundation review says media representation damages transgender wellbeing. Available: Last accessed 16/11/2017.) The issues of under representation progresses into further damaging issues for artists of this category, as many artists who identify with queer and ethnical culture make work about going against the grain of representation and how this can affect them, I feel that this is an …show more content…
Judith Butler, a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity says ‘’the experience of a gendered cultural identity is considered an achievement’’. Butler raises the theory that woman and men (the sexes) can identify with feeling more or less like another, then she recognizes the problem that sex creates a gendered culture and her theory is to diminish the original idea of gender, gender being a social construct anyway, however then this makes up a desired appetite for the other gender, thee way that representation has come about has created these ideologies of gender, ethnicity and social class. Judith Butler is relevant to the discussion because her theory gets rid of all social constructs and Relevant to the topic is John Berger’s book ‘’ways of seeing’’. His theories highlight the idea that in art there are many ways of seeing work. in a male gaze and the female figure in art is presented as an object and not so much as beauty for the viewer(need to read more and compare two
When looking into the issues of representation, the media often exacerbates an existing problem. Racial stereotypes are often a social myth and …show more content…
Even Disney Princesses are another stereotypical example of the male gaze. Essentially Disney is a big conglomerate company that incorporates the male gaze into so much of what it produces. The storyline is that the female protagonist can only find peace when they have fallen in love with a man, suggesting that as a woman your political worth is reduced to your marriageability. “Tabloid stories about trans people are often exploitative, invasive of privacy, inaccurate, irrelevant or intended to drum up transphobia in their reader shows how hostile many people are to trans people in current society.” (Benjamin Butterworth. (2014). Major LGBT Foundation review says media representation damages transgender wellbeing. Available: Last accessed 16/11/2017.) The issues of under representation progresses into further damaging issues for artists of this category, as many artists who identify with queer and ethnical culture make work about going against the grain of representation and how this can affect them, I feel that this is an …show more content…
Judith Butler, a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity says ‘’the experience of a gendered cultural identity is considered an achievement’’. Butler raises the theory that woman and men (the sexes) can identify with feeling more or less like another, then she recognizes the problem that sex creates a gendered culture and her theory is to diminish the original idea of gender, gender being a social construct anyway, however then this makes up a desired appetite for the other gender, thee way that representation has come about has created these ideologies of gender, ethnicity and social class. Judith Butler is relevant to the discussion because her theory gets rid of all social constructs and Relevant to the topic is John Berger’s book ‘’ways of seeing’’. His theories highlight the idea that in art there are many ways of seeing work. in a male gaze and the female figure in art is presented as an object and not so much as beauty for the viewer(need to read more and compare two