Representation Case study - Half Term homework

1) What group of people or place you will be studying the representation of, and on which platform(s):
- I will be studying Men and how they are represented for the male gaze.
- I will be looking at either print text such as magazines for women (Cosmo)
Or broadcast in terms of Trailers for perfumes

2) Why have you chosen this topic and why do you think it will be a rich area of study?
- I have chosen this, as the female gaze has been under debate alot, but there is also an element of the male gaze in todays media, in which men are being portrayed as sex objects and machines of money

3) Identify at least 3 media texts that you will use as your primary sources (e.g. a specific newspaper, TV programme, film, magazine, website...)
- Cosmo/ More (Womens magazine)
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4) List the theorists who are relevant for your study (choose from: Gaye Tuchman; David Gauntlett; Laura Mulvey; Judith Butler; Stuart Hall; Antonio Gramsci; Anthony Giddens; Manuel Alvarado; Nick Lacey; Richard Dyer; Marshall MsLuhan; Theodor Adorno.)

Laura Mulvey - Male Gaze (Female Gaze)
David Gauntlett - Girl Power

5) What have your chosen theorists written about your topic area? Include quotations and comment on their connection to your topic area.?

- In the magazines for older teenagers and young women, the encouragement of women to be sexual actors - even predators - rather than sexual objects or victims, reflects a 'feminist' turning of the tables. Feminists never really suggested that having sex with lots of men was a goal in itself, but the rejection of passive femininity, and the freedom to openly desire others, is feminist progress.

- It is widely noted that since the 1980s there has been an increasing display and sexualisation of the male body in mainstream cinema and television and in advertising (Moore 1987, Evans & Gamman 1995, Mort 1996, Edwards 1997).