Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Representation Quiz (Research)

Representation Quiz

Who wrote about the “final girl” in 1992?
Carol Clover wrote about the final girl

In what book did they write about the “final girl”?
She wrote about the final girl in a book called Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

List three traits of the “final girl'.
Three traits include
- Fights back
- Is conservative
- Binary opposition

Who wrote about existing research on women’s roles in media texts in 1983?
Jeremy Tunstall (The Media in Britain, 1983) wrote about existing research on women's roles.

What were the 4 roles mentioned?
The four roles mentioned were
-Domestic
-Sexual
-Consumer
-Marital

In 1992 research showed that men dominated women on-screen, but by what ratio?
2:1

What was the only genre in which the ratio of males to females was more equal?
it was more equal in advertising

Name one of the three problems with the findings?
One of the problems was that men were shown away from the home. 

Why does the reading suggest that Ripley (Alien) is ‘more progressive’ than Lara Croft (TR)?
This is because Lara Croft is sexualised and objectified

What are the 3 ‘C’s when discussing the portrayal of women in some lifestyle magazines?
They are
-Cooking
-Cleaning
-Caring

Who wrote Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema?
Laura Mulvey (Autumn, 1975)

Describe what is meant by the ‘male gaze’
The male gaze is when technical camera work is used so that the audience is the heterosexual male, seeing the women in a sexual way. It presents women as objects.

Give an example
POV and reaction shots

Which magazine removed the male centrefold in the 1980s and why?

Cosmopolitan – The audience found it more amusing than anything else.

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