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19 Cards in this Set
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Representation Theory |
Considering how groups of people or places are re-presented and about constructing reality |
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McDougall |
distinction between reality and media representations becomes blurred or invisible to us in such a media saturated world (intro) |
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Stadler |
said representation is ability to draw upon features of the world and present them to the viewer (versions of reality) |
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Lippmann |
coined phrase ‘stereotype’ but wasn’t meant to be negative just a simply shortcut to understanding |
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O’Sullivan |
Stereotype is labelling something involving categorisation and evaluation. Easy to see who is good and who is bad for example |
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Perkins |
stereotypes not so simple, don’t operate as we assume. Not always negative, not always about minorities, not always false |
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Dyer |
stereotypes boring, if we watch a film about an alcoholic we know we are going to watch his decline or inspiring redemption |
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Levi-Strauss |
all representations have ideologies behind them, people like to give preferred representation (racist producer wants to portray black people as bad) |
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Thornton |
Subcultures are more specific cultures within a larger culture, helping raising the status of sub-cultures to create identity and differente themselves. (eg. black females differentiated from females) |
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Maffesoli |
disagreed with Thornton on subcultures, and said it although it can bring collective identity, it leads to decline of individuals (eg. majority white girls rejecting black women as there own kind) |
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Mulvey |
male gaze, camera always from male perspective looking at women |
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Bechdel test |
see how women are represented, speaking role (named) without being a victim or talking about men |
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Smurfette Principle |
only one women in male dominated film |
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Realist Representation |
aims to represent the world accurately |
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Anti-realist |
surreal or fantasy |
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Positive representation |
reflects group in a positive light |
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Negative representation |
reflects group in negative light |
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Progressive |
reflects an improvement on old fashioned representation |
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Regressive |
reflects an old fashioned, negative, representation |
