Reps Essay Writing

8/14/2019 Reps Essay Writing

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Media Studies

Representations

Building the essay


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objectives

P3

Plan essay to fulfill Assessment Criteria for

UNIT4 reps.

Write paragraphs from structure and assess

using mark scheme

P4

Write whole essay


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Essay question

EITHER

(a) Can any contemporary media representations beconsidered alternative?

OR

(b) Consider why a social group or place you havestudied is represented by the media in particular ways.

As a group you have 3 minutes to deconstruct anddecide on a question


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Identify 6 potential paragraphs

Individually write them on the sheets provided. 3 minutes

Now visit the others sheets and rate the topics 1 to 6 (6being best)

Suggest one or more texts which they could use for theirBEST paragraph (preferably choose texts we have ALLstudied)

Look at the rating of your paragraphs topics and the

suggestions for texts - what ideas if any does this giveyou?


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Topic of paragraph: what the paragraph will dealwith.

Texts to be referenced: not just the films, alsospecific moments from scenes, the trailer,characters, lines of dialogue, shots, mise en scene,soundtrack etc.

Points to be made SHEP

MIGRAIN

Theory: Who? What? Why? Gramsci, Dyer, Halletc.

Make a plan this way


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Revisit mark scheme for UNIT 4

What are the requirements for levels 5/6?

Are you addressing these in your paragraph

plans?

Review plans and change accordingly


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Halls codes

dominant (or 'hegemonic') reading: the reader fully shares the text's codeand accepts and reproduces thepreferred reading (a reading which may

not have been the result of any conscious intention on the part of theauthor(s)) - in such a stance the code seems 'natural' and 'transparent.

negotiated reading: the reader partly shares the text's code and broadlyaccepts the preferred reading, but sometimes resists and modifies it in away which reflects their own position, experiences and interests (local andpersonal conditions may be seen as exceptions to the general rule) - thisposition involves contradictions.

oppositional ('counter-hegemonic') reading: the reader, whose social

situation places them in a directly oppositional relation to the dominant

code, understands the preferred reading but does not share the text's codeand rejects this reading, bringing to bear an alternative frame of reference

(radical, feminist etc.) (e.g. when watching a television broadcast producedon behalf of a political party they normally vote against).


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Gramsci

Theory of Hegemony

Refresh your memories: what is the main

theory why might it be relevant to our

essay?


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Write essay

You have 45 minutes to complete.


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Alvarado, Manuel, Robin Gutch & Tana Wollen (1987) Learning the Media. London: Macmillan

Diawara, Manthia (1998) 'Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance'. InLeo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (Eds) Film Theory and Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press,pp. 845-54

Dines, Gail & Jean M Humez (Eds.) (1994) Gender, Race and Class in Media. Newbury Park:Sage

Dyer, Richard (1993) The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation. London: Routledge Dyer, Richard (1997) White. London: Routledge

Dyer, Richard (2000) 'White'. In Robert Stam & Roby Miller (Eds) Film and Theory. Oxford:Blackwell, pp. 733-51

Ferguson, Robert (1998) Representing Race: Ideology, Identity and the Media. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press

Friedman, Lester (Ed) (1991) Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema.Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Gaines, Jane (2000) 'White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film

Theory'. In In Robert Stam & Roby Miller (Eds) Film and Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 715-32 Hall, Stuart (1997) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Newbury

Park, CA: Sage

Hall, Stuart (2000) 'Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation'. In Robert Stam & RobyMiller (Eds) Film and Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 704-14

hooks, bell (1992) Black Looks: Race and Representation. London: Turnaround

Neale, Steve (1993) 'The Same Old Story: Stereotypes and Difference'. In Manuel Alvarado,Edward Buscombe & Richard Collins (Eds) The Screen Education ReaderLondon: Macmillan, pp.41-7

Nichols, Bill (1981)Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media. Bloomington:Indiana University Press

Stam, Robert & Louise Spence (1985) 'Colonialism, Racism and Representation'. In Bill Nichols(Ed) Movies and Methods,Vol. 2. Berkeley: University of California Press

Tagg, John (1988) The Burden of Representation: Essays onPhotographiesand Histories.Basingstoke: Macmillan
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