vogue/ big issue

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vogue is owned by

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conde nast and a luxury lifestyle magazine

Question 2

the front cover features a

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tanned Italian actress Sophia Loren famous in the 60’s for being a exotic beauty

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close up of Sophia Loren makes her seem

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very important and powerful she is also making direct address to show she is confident

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the jewels she is wearing represents

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wealth and riches

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Sophia Loren’s costume

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blue, teal color which connotes inspiration, confidence. her costume is taken from a middle eastern background to emphasises her being exotic

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stuart halls stereotype

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her costume is taken from middle Easter stereotypes representing ethnic minorities as ‘other’

Question 7

in the article there is a piece written by

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sheila black this is very counter typical of vogue

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sheila black challenges female stereotypes

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she talks about women being independent and financially independent and investing money having financial power which was unusual for the 60’s a slow shift on how gender is represented

Question 9

women who read vogue at that time and now are

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from the ABC socioeconomic wealthier and have the money to invest

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but also implies that

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women having a lack of privacy from their husband and are reliant on them. the fact that there is an article explainign investments reflects hoe less involved women were with finances

Question 11

the cutex adverte shows

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a woman with bare shoulders which suggests nudity

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the cutex advert also suggest nudity through the lipstick colours

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bare essentials, birthday suit, barely decent. suggesting women need to be naked, sexualised to be beautiful by the rhetorical question ‘are you woman enough?

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in the imperial leather advert there is

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a mother and son/ child. a typical representation of women being nurturing and maternal

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the advert is about soap talking about soft and gentle suggesting that

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women need to soft (which may mean weak, delicate) and gentle, the way the woman on the cover is with the child she is also looking away all her attention on the child

Question 15

during the 60’s what movements were there

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female sexual liberation, the birth control pills were made

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class and upper class is represented more

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through references to royalty, lord, lady formal event, high representation of upper classes being idealized

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white models presented wearing expensive jewelery and clothing as

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having more money, high status

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the picnic advert the woman and man are presented as

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woman is dominant she makes direct address the man is looking away possibly for directions both on horses

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the picnic advert the woman and man are presented as

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woman is dominant she makes direct address the man is looking away possibly for directions both on horses

Question 20

the big issue is a

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magazine that offers homeless people a job

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in the magazine the homeless magazine vendors are refereed to as

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‘inspiration’ and ‘friendly’ talking about them in positive light

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the big issue represents

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a typically underrepresented social group

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represents homeless people as

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vendors going out in bad weather brave and strong people who are struggling but in a good way as in they are over coming their problems.

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the representation of homelessness inst idealized

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it is reasonably honest and sympathetic but creates a balanced representation of homelessness without leaving out the shocking reality of being homeless

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more left wing

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they criticize Margaret thatcher, the government

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the big issue 25th anniversary cover

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‘revolution’ is a social change, binary of wealth and poverty the colour gold connoting prestige, celebration

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grayson perrys letter to my younger self binary opposition

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the dress vs tie, the watch vs the bracelet, colors of pride, there is a blurring of lines when it comes to gender binary. the colors of pride shows grayson is showing an acceptation