LO3 Theories of representation

Starter
1) Theorists which discusses gender representation: Vladimir Propp

Representation - How the media shows us things about society - but this is through careful mediation.

Kingsman Plot: The main plot follows a spy organisation which recruits a unrefined yet promising street kid into the organisations ultra competitive training program, just as a world wide threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

KT1: Tim O'Sullivan et al (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 partial and selective view of reality.
The partial repersentation of the current youth and possible gang culture.

KT2: Richard Dyer (1983)
Audiances should question the repersentations they see in media texts.

KT3: Laura Mulvey (1975)

Male gaze.

Women are objectifies in media texts and passive objects.

Audiances are positioned to view the women from the point of view of a hetrosexual male.

Within my chosen film there is little use of females however the sidekick styled character of the antagonist is seen to be objectified and follow this theory, this is achieved through the use of the  micro elements in the mise en scene, most noticably the costume

KT4: Stuart Hall (1995)
Western/ white cultures continue to misrepresent ethnic minorities as in the media due to underlying racist tendancies.
E.g. non white as 'the other', evil, barbaric

Edward Said (1987) -Common reprsentaion of ethnic minorities, especially affro carabian  Seen to be: Hummorous, exotic, danger ...

John Berger (1972)
'Men act and women apear'
- "Writing in 1972, Berger insisted that women were still ‘depicted in a different way to men - because the "ideal" spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him’" - http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/gaze/gaze08.html

This theory is also similar to that of Laura Mulveys theory of the male gaze.