Remake of Media Studies - Representation Theorists by Catherine Chowdhary https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx Made with wonder en-us 2021-04-29 19:59:30 UTC 2025-11-22 21:31:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Femenist Theory https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527947990 Real name Gloria Jean Watkins born Sept 1952 in Kentucky.]]> 2021-05-16 06:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527947990 "Looking is a political act" https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527948407 “Men look, women appear” ]]> 2021-05-16 06:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527948407 John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, as well as his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527949278 2021-05-16 06:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527949278 https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527950072 2021-05-16 06:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527950072 Handmaids Tale https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527950466 2021-05-16 06:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527950466 https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527951244 2021-05-16 06:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527951244 Michel Foucault was a french philospher and social theorist. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527951790 2021-05-16 06:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527951790 “women were depicted in a different way to men – because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the images of the woman is designed to flatter him.” https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527952060 2021-05-16 06:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527952060 Michel Foucault began to attract wide notice as one of the most original and controversial thinkers of his day https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527952626 2021-05-16 06:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527952626 What she thought? https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527953652 Bell Hooks believes that upper class white men control the media industries. This can include news companies, film companies and TV companies. She also thought that what these white upper class men believed in and their values and beliefs are what we would see in media.]]> 2021-05-16 06:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527953652 the Male Gaze theory states that women in the media are seen through the eyes of a man, and that they are portrayed as passive subjects of male interest. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527954207 2021-05-16 06:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527954207 “Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.” https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527954493 2021-05-16 06:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527954493 Focault's theory was that people don't have a 'real' identity within themselves. He believed it was just used to describe a person. An 'identity' is communicated to others in your interactions with them, but can change. He also said that people do not 'have' power naturally, and that it was gained. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527955669 2021-05-16 06:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527955669 This philosophy can be interpreted from a feminists viewpoint in three ways: how men see women, how women see themselves, and finally, how women see other women. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527956134 2021-05-16 06:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527956134 What this means for society? https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527957778 This means that if you were not one of these upper class white men then your values and ideas would never be seen. It also means that whole groups of people such as black people, hispanic and many other ethnic minorities would be misrepresented or ignored.]]> 2021-05-16 06:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527957778 An example of a film that supports his theory is Toy Story. Buzz lightyear's character is defined by the way he interacts with the other characters. He is shown to be funny, when he doesn't intend to be. He talks about how he is an astronaut hero although he comes across as delusional and it makes his character funny. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527959335 2021-05-16 06:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527959335 https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527962005 He passed away on June 25th 1984]]> 2021-05-16 06:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527962005 According to the theory, the male gaze rejects a woman's human identity. reducing them to objects to be praised for their physical presence https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527963587 2021-05-16 06:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527963587 Gender oppositions https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527963699 male:
-active (do)
-dominant
-hard (muscles)
-intelligent
-rational
-strong
-thoughtful
female:
-Passive (talk)
-submissive
-soft(curves)
-intuitive
-emotional
-weak
-impulsive]]> 2021-05-16 06:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527963699 https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527964115 2021-05-16 06:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527964115 Issues this creates https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527964187 Hooks also believed that it would create prejudice and discrimination towards these groups. She also heavily believed that black women were seen as the lowest in media texts because of their ethnicity and gender - a mix of misogyny and racism. It also comes from historical slave issues but this has never left.]]> 2021-05-16 06:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527964187 https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527965043 2021-05-16 06:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527965043 still alive https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527967311 2021-05-16 06:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527967311 She is still alive https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527970485 She is 52 and her bday is 25th September]]> 2021-05-16 06:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527970485 "I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning." https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527983197 2021-05-16 07:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527983197 With Ways Of Seeing, Berger popularised the attitude that art should be for all. This was no doubt governed by his notably Marxist outlook on life. He believed that the enjoyment and appreciation of art should not be saved for a privileged, pretentious few who thought their perceptions and tastes to be the standard https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527990106 2021-05-16 07:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527990106 Foucault has influenced media as he defined what a 'character' is. His perception and meaning of what a character is has helped many filmmakers understand or be inspired to create a character following his path. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527991442 2021-05-16 07:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527991442 In feminists theory the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts and in literature, from a straight males perspective that represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the straight male viewer https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527995697 2021-05-16 07:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1527995697 Feminism https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1528002017 The whole idea of the Feminist Theory is based around feminism and this is a moment to end patriarchy, patriarchy being a society ran by men for men. Things you'd include would be sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression of women. 

Hook explains that 'intersectionality' refers to the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality to create a 'white supremacist capitalist patriarchy' whose ideologies and beliefs dominate the media. This links back to the idea that rich, upper class white men run the media and what they think is passed down to everyone in the public eye. 

She also argues that black women should develop an 'oppositional gaze' that would refuse to identify with characters - the 'gaze' is political for black Americans as they were punished for looking at their white slave masters (this again links back to hundreds of years ago with the slave trade)
]]> 2021-05-16 07:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1528002017 https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1528003937 2021-05-16 07:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1528003937 Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Whether exploring the history of the female nude or the status of oil paint, his landmark series showed how art revealed the social and political systems in which it was made. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1528005736 2021-05-16 07:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1528005736 The “male gaze” invokes the sexual politics and suggests a sexualised way of looking that empowers men and objectifies women. In the male gaze, woman are visually positioned as an object of heterosexual male desire. A key idea of feminist film theory is the concept of the male gaze that was introduced by scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey in her famous 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1529898335 2021-05-17 05:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1529898335 bell hookss https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1529905758 2021-05-17 05:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cchowdhary/oatzo0ewve7k5pgx/wish/1529905758