theory evaluation LFTVD

Question 1

bell hooks - PROS

Answer 1

• draws attention to the underrepresentation of particular social groups
• allows for cross-cultural comparisons of representations
• link industrial power to the representations made
• more inclusive than other representation theories

Question 2

bell hooks - CONS

Answer 2

• very American, based within American history and subcultures
• couldn’t predict the way participatory culture would shift with the rise of the internet

Question 3

butler - PROS

Answer 3

• useful within large ensemble casts that make representations that participate in the ‘naturalisation’ of gender roles
• helps compare how different cultures construct gender

Question 4

butler - CONS

Answer 4

• couldn’t predict the way participatory culture would shift with the rise of the internet
• TV shows purposely subvert this nowadays and problematise gender

Question 5

van zoonen - PROS

Answer 5

• allows cross cultural comparisons of representations made about gender
• allows us to understand how LFTVDs often construct a particular ‘gaze’
• links gender to objectification and the active construction of it

Question 6

van zoonen - CONS

Answer 6

• excludes other underrepresented groups
• does not take into account how internet has changed things
• some directors and writers are female now

Question 7

hall - PROS

Answer 7

• understand the industrial reasons behind the stereotypes constructed
• helps understand how audiences can deconstruct the stereotypes they’ve been presented with
• cross cultural comparison of cultures

Question 8

hall - CONS

Answer 8

• does not take into account how internet has changed things

Question 9

gauntlett - PROS

Answer 9

• encourages us to make relations between the representations made and the way in which the audience goes on to use them
• opens up ideas about gender and sexuality
• shows identities as changing and complex

Question 10

gauntlett - CONS

Answer 10

• not useful for the study of period dramas where there is purposely traditional gender and sexuality representations
• very based within the American/English cultural sphere

Question 11

gilroy - PROS

Answer 11

• encourages us to question the use of non-white characters in LFTVDs as ‘other’
• encourages us to identify racist subtexts within LFTVDs and the cultures that produce them
• cross-cultural comparison

Question 12

gilroy - CONS

Answer 12

• based in a transatlantic/British context

- does not recognise the impact of self-representation on social media or the impact of social activism on campaigns