URGENT HOTEL BABYLON ETHNICITY ESSAYS

YOU MUST POST YOUR HOTEL BABYLON ETHNICITY ESSAYS SO THAT I CAN MARK THEM USING THE EXAM CRITERIA, AND GIVE YOUFEEDBACK BEFORE THE MOCK EXAM.

DO NOT POST YOUR ESSAY THE DAY BEFORE WE GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND EXPECT IT TO BE MARKED, AS I WILL NOT HAVE TIME.

I have chcked the blogs today and most of you have not done this yet. 

Christmas Holiday Homework

Your AS TV Drama mock exam will be on the Representation of Gender.

To revise for this, watch a few clips from  several different sub genres of TV Drama and consider how genders are CONSTRUCTED.  Are they stereotypical, or do they challenge stereotypes.  For instance, are women shown as passive, in domenstic roles...or are they shown as strong, successful career women.  Are they weak and emotional, or are they strong and determined?

Are men portrayed as unemotional and undomesticated?  Are they in control and dominant? 

What roles is each character playing?  What are their occupations?  Family situations?

Consider how camera angles, shots and movements, mise en scene, lighting, editing and sound are all used to construct these representations.

Read through the articles and links that I have posted.  Make sure that you post your Ethnicity essays, so that I can read through and give you some feedback before the exam.  (Preferably not the day before we come back to school please!)


GOOD LUCK!

Vladimir Propp’s Character Theory

CHARACTERS
1.The hero (seeks something)
2.The villain (opposes the hero)
3.The donor (helps the hero by providing a magic object)
4.The dispatcher (sends the hero on his way)
5.The false hero (falsely assuming the role of hero)
6.The helper (gives support to the hero)
7.The princess (the reward for the hero but also needs to beprotected from the villain
8.Her father

Can you think of any TV drama characters that fit this description?

Representation of Gender

Representation of Gender

•Feminism has been a recognised social philosophy for more than forty years, and the changes that have occurred in women's roles in western society during that time have been nothing short of phenomenal. Yet media representations of women remain worryingly constant. Does this reflect that the status of women has not really changed or that the male-dominated media does not want to accept it has changed?

•Representations of women across all media tend to highlight the following:

•beauty (within narrow conventions)

•size/physique (again, within narrow conventions)

•sexuality (as expressed by the above)

•emotional (as opposed to intellectual) dealings

•relationships (as opposed to independence/freedom)

 

•Women are often represented as being part of a context (family, friends, colleagues) and working/thinking as part of a team. In drama, they tend to take the role of helper (Propp) or object, passive rather than active. Often their passivity extends to victimhood. Men are still represented as TV drama characters up to 3 times more frequently than women

 

•The representations of women that do make it onto page and screen do tend to be stereotypical, in terms of conforming to societal expectations, and characters who do not fit into the mould tend to be seen as dangerous and deviant.

 

•Discussions of women's representation in the media tend to revolve around the focus on physical beauty to the near-exclusion of other values, the lack of powerful female role models, and the extremely artificial nature of such portrayals, which bear little or no relation to the reality experience by women across the planet.

The Portrayal of Women on TV

Please read thourgh this academic article on TV representations of women.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/pth9601.html