L03 Representation

How the media shows us things about society, but this is through careful meditation.
Hence - re-presentation

Selective
War - Value = Belief System

Tim O'Sullivan (1998)
For representations to work, there has to be a shared recognition of people and places. All representations therefore have ideologies behind them.

Ideology - refers to a set of ideas which produces a partial and selective view of reality.

Write down a view of reality that is shown in your film, is this only a partial view?

That Spider-Man has to keep evil away and to fight it off before any bad people take over.

Richard Dyer (1983)
Audiences should question the representations they see in media texts.

Laura Mulvey (1975)
Male Gaze - Women are objectified in media text and passive objects
Audiences are positioned to view the women from the point of view of a heterosexual male.

Stuart Hall (1995)
Western/White cultures continue to misrepresent ethnic minorities as in the media due to underlying racist tendencies.

Earp and Katz (1999)
Men are often represented as having tendencies of pathological control and violence.