Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Representation of Issues Body Issues
Representation of Issues Body Issues
Representation of Issues Body Issues
Body Image
L/O:
To identify how to answer the
question using1/2 of the case
studies.
Quick Fire
Leveson stated that women were
relegated to five roles in the media
1. Sex objects
2. Wives and mothers
3. Passive
4. Relatively invisible
5. Too fat/thin or too old/young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
S5pM1fW6hNs
Unrealistic
images of
perfection
for both
men and
women in
magazines
Gossip
magazines
where
imperfectio
ns in the
bodies of
celebrities
are
highlighted
and
Documentaries raising
awareness of the issue
Newspap
er images
of
catwalk
models
that are a
size zero
Online
Media
articles
commenti
ng on the
concern of
the beauty
cult that
means
only thin is
beautiful
Advertise
ments for
products
that aim
to make
us more
beautiful
less
wrinkled
and more
flawless
supplanted
the
Beauty is about behavior,
not
happy labelled
housewife as
appearance. The qualities
the
of
beautiful in women
in arbiter
any given
successful
time period are no more
than
symbols of female behaviour
womanhood.
considered desirable at that time.
Besides weakening women
psychologically, the beauty myth
feeds a multibillion-dollar
cosmetics industry, and keeps
women from rising too high in the
workplace by offering a way
around antidiscrimination laws.
problems.
25.4% of girls compare their bodies to people on TV
35.2% of girls would like to look like the models who
appear in magazines
Body Image
Body image as an issue is
represented across a range of media
texts
How the image is represented
depends on the audience
In magazines women are sold an
idealised version of themselves and
aspire to attain the unobtainable
*False consciousness/ False needs
Body Image
Some programmes tackle the
problem of body image from a range
of points of view
It may be through plastic surgery or
general dissatisfaction with body size
Most of these programmes are aimed
at a female audience
Body Image
Task
Watch and analysis How have they
represented the issue Selection,
Construction, focusing
Who is the audience?
Who is in control of the text? Whose ideas
and values are expressed through the
representations? eg. BBC? Research
remit and values
What mode of address is being used?
What ideologies / messages might be
contained within the representation?
Body Image
BBC3
BBC Three offers audiences fresh perspective on
body image with new season of documentaries
Following the continued success of factual
programming on the channel, Zai Bennett,
Controller of BBC Three, today unveiled The
Body Beautiful, a new season of programmes
exploring the topic of body image.
Body image is a big issue for our audience on BBC
Three so in The Body Beautiful - a challenging and
penetrating season of programmes - asking whether
changing your body can really make you happy. Zai
Bennett, Controller, BBC Three
Date:06.08.2012 Last updated: 18.03.2014 at
18.03
Category:BBC Three;Factual
Heat magazine
Constant focus on
body image
Male gaze
Women are judged by
men
Focuses on
imperfections
consumerism?
Questioning women to
be unhappy
effect
But
Representation of an Issue
The Sexualisation of
Children
This looked at concern over how overly
sexualised images of women may adversely
affect young children
Various music videos Rihannas S and M;
Shakira She Wolf; Miley Cyrus Cant be Tamed
Beyonces Who Rules The World (Girls) all
promoting this as a positive role model for
children
News articles from BBC website Dont
Sexualise Children and Daily Mail How Pop
became Porn (both outraged at the negative
effect of such videos)
Good answer
Specific examples to illustrate how
images, language, visual codes and
modes of address construct the
representation of an issue.