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Representation Theory

Considering how groups of people or places are re-presented and about constructing reality

McDougall

distinction between reality and media representations becomes blurred or invisible to us in such a media saturated world (intro)

Stadler

said representation is ability to draw upon features of the world and present them to the viewer (versions of reality)

Lippmann

coined phrase ‘stereotype’ but wasn’t meant to be negative just a simply shortcut to understanding

O’Sullivan

Stereotype is labelling something involving categorisation and evaluation. Easy to see who is good and who is bad for example

Perkins

stereotypes not so simple, don’t operate as we assume. Not always negative, not always about minorities, not always false

Dyer

stereotypes boring, if we watch a film about an alcoholic we know we are going to watch his decline or inspiring redemption

Levi-Strauss

all representations have ideologies behind them, people like to give preferred representation (racist producer wants to portray black people as bad)

Thornton

Subcultures are more specific cultures within a larger culture, helping raising the status of sub-cultures to create identity and differente themselves. (eg. black females differentiated from females)

Maffesoli

disagreed with Thornton on subcultures, and said it although it can bring collective identity, it leads to decline of individuals (eg. majority white girls rejecting black women as there own kind)

Mulvey

male gaze, camera always from male perspective looking at women

Bechdel test

see how women are represented, speaking role (named) without being a victim or talking about men

Smurfette Principle

only one women in male dominated film

Realist Representation

aims to represent the world accurately

Anti-realist

surreal or fantasy

Positive representation

reflects group in a positive light

Negative representation

reflects group in negative light

Progressive

reflects an improvement on old fashioned representation

Regressive

reflects an old fashioned, negative, representation