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Basic & advanced representation theorists

 Lisbet Van Zoonen - women's bodies are used as a spectacle for an assumed heterosexual male audience - the typical representation of women therefore reinforces patriarchal hegemony - even in products targeting women, women are still presented as spectacle, and presented as aspirational role models Stuart Hall - representation is presented through media language and reflects the ideology of the producer. - stereotyping reduces to few characteristics, but is helpful to allow producers to easily construct audiences and audiences to decode them - stereotyping tends to occur when there are inequalities of power ('other') (ethnocentrism) - all representations are constructed through media language to enforce the produces ideology - stereotypes are an excellent way of identifying and categorising groups to make sense of the world. David Guantlet - audiences can pick and mix elements from media products to construct their own identities - identities are constructed through a numbe...

Late night women's hour - home

 0000 - 0020 How does Laverne introduce the show and engage the audience? - "this month on late night women's hour" establishing context  - intertextual reference to game of thrones "winter is coming" - mainstream appeal appealing to a younger segment of demographic - hygge - home, domestic topics traditionally appealing topics to women, is this progressive or revisionist? 0020 - 0040 What do the range of guests tell us about the audience of lNWH? the BBCs role as public service broadcaster and how the BBC offers diversity and equality? - Podcaster and crafter Helen Zaltsman , Susie Orbach psychotherapist and author, Dr Rachel Hurdley research fellow in the school of social science at cardiff university, Trinne Hahnemann ceff and author of 'Scandinavian Comfort Food - Embracing the Arts of Hygge' - Diversity of nationality, different backgorunds 0040 - 0420 How does this part serve to educate as stated in the BBC's mission statement? in what ways doe...

Likely questions

 Language  - Steve Neale - genre theory Claude Levi-Strauss - structuralism (binary oppositions) Tzvetan Todorov - Narrative theory (equilibrium) What media language is associated with this product? And how does it create multiple meanings?​ How does media language combine to create meaning?​ What are the genre conventions of this product, how do they work, and how have they developed?​ What is the historical context of the genre? How has it shifted over time?​ How do audiences respond to and interpret all the stuff above?​ How do the genre conventions of this product reflect the sociohistorical context, and how does it use genre hybridity?​ In what ways does this product use media language to encode the ideology of the producer?​ Representation -  Stuart Hall - Representation  Liesbet Van Zoonen - Feminist theory  Bell Hooks - Feminist theory How are events, issues, individuals and social groups in this product represented through the selection and combination ...