MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS Flashcards
What TV show depict women as busy housewives? (Tunstall)
Loose Women
What’s the example of music industry sexually objectifying women? (Bates)
‘Blurring Lines’ - Thicke’s music video
What are the 6 most popular stereotypes of masculinity, according to Children Now?
- Joker - laughter
- Jock - powerful despite threat to health
- Strong, silent type - focuses on being in charge (e.g. James Bond)
- Big shot - economically powerful and socially successful
- Action hero - aggrssive (e.g. Hulk)
- Buffoon - father figure with parenting issues
Which magazines transmit metrosexual values? (Gauntlett)
Men’s Health
What was the ‘Lose the lads’ mags campaign’?
Striking against magazines that sexually objectify women. This led to shops like Tesco to stop selling these magazines
What’s the example of magazines supporting the retributive masculinity? (Rutherford)
Nuts / Loaded
What are Barnes’ 10 stereotypes of disability in the media?
- Pitiable
- Object of curiousity
- Object of violence
- Evil
- Super-cripple
- Laughable
- Their own worst enemy
- Burden
- Non-sexual
- Uable to participate in daily life
What’s the example of Barne’s disability stereotype that impared people are non-sexual?
The Undatables - Channel 4
What’s the example of disabled identities in film?
Dory from Finding Nemo - amnesia
What’s DDA? How many people are covered by it?
Disability discrimination act
1/4 people
What are the 3 stereotypes of sexuality according to Craig?
- Camp - exxagerated, colourful figures of fun (e.g. Erik - Sex Education)
- Macho - exaggerated masculinity
- Deviant - evil or acting devious (e.g. Mickey Milkovich - Shameless)
What is the pink economy?
The spending power of LGBT community
What’s the example of a headline that negatively depicts homosexuality in print media?
‘Pretend 2 dads is new normal’
What is tokenism?
Symbolic effort
What was the ratio of media coverage when Tom ap Rhys Pryce and Balbir Matharu died?
87% and 13%
According to Dijk, around which 3 caregories of ethnic minorities moral panics are constructed?
- Immigrants
- Refugees and asylum seekers
- Muslms
What category of people is often associated with negative news values, according to Cushion et al? (age, race, gender)
Young black men
Whose image got cropped during 2011 London riots so he looked angry when actually he was at the funeral?
Mark Duggan
Whose death started the recent black lives matter movement? In what year?
George Floyd - 2020
What’s the example of TV show portraying high-class life and monarchy
The Crown - Netflix
What’s the name for the culture whereby one wants to stay aware of other’s lifestyles and praises lavishness?
Keeping up with the Joneses
What’s the example of show that portrayed w/c problems in dignified and realistic way?
Shameless
What’s the example of the upper-class politician who faced criticism? What for?
Matt Hancock - breaking covid lockdown rules
What’s the exmple of poverty infotainment show?
Benefits Street
What are the terms used to describe the underclass (3)
Chavs, white trash, social scum
According to Headliners? what are the 7 stereotypes of children used by the media?
- Cute
- Little devils
- Brilliant - geniuses
- Brave little angels
- Accessories (e.g. North West)
- Modern - corrupted by social media
- Kids as victims
What’s the example of pro-social action that children are depicted to be engaged with?
Telling the truth
What is pester power?
The concept of children pressurising their parents to buy them unnecessary products
Whose killers haven’t been depicted positively in the media? (children)
James Bulger
What’s the case study of film sexualising children? (Demonstrating how media turns against non-conforming children)
Cuties 2020 - Netflix, France
What’s the name for elderly’s spending power?
Grey pound
What’s the example of an advertisement representing old people?
John Lewis - Man on the Moon
According to Age Concern, what are the 3 ways that elderly are stereotypically portrayed?
- Grumpy
- Mentally challenged
- A burden
GIve 2 examples of moral panics revolving around young age social groups? What decade were they in?
- 60’s - sexual morality
- 70’s - hippies/punks
- 80’s - black young men, muggers
- 90’s - teenage pregnancies
- 00’s - hoodies
According to Wayne, in what 2 ways (in relation to crime) youths are portrayed?
- VIctims of crime
- Perpetrators of violent crime
According to Kelly, what are the 3 common types of youths’ representations
- Dangerous
- In need of protection
- Immature
