Media Studies

A2
 Homework review

• Using the analysis you did for homework present a

brief overview of how disability is presented in the
text which you viewed.

• If you haven’t completed this you now have

20minutes to watch and work
 Objectives

• Explore media representations of disability

• What is the dominant physical stereotype offered in these
images? Why?
• What does the word ‘disabled’ mean?
• Are there positive readings to be taken from these images?
 Stereotypes of disabled
representation
• Pitiable and pathetic
• Object of violence
• Sinister or evil
• As atmosphere
• ‘Super Cripple’
• Laughable
• Chip on shoulder
• Burden to others
• Outside of mainstream society

• Read Notes of Disabled reps in handbook p26-29 and highlight examples which
catch your attention
 Read

• Media Guardian

How does this add to the representation

of disabled people in the Media?
 Research Task
• Check out this website
for debate and analysis of
media representations.

• Disability Planet
 Areas of focus
• Audience responses to Documentary
disability Sport
• Institutional approaches TV advertising
and ideology TV drama
• Positive and negative Film drama
representations E-media
• Self-representation Radio
Print
• Differences between
formats.
 create a useful blog with clear links
and some analysis
Research
• We need to compile a number of dossiers on
different forms of representations of disabled
people.

• Using the prompts from earlier slides spend the next

20 minutes collecting information from the web.

• Resources you might include are images, video

links or video embeds, text, social networking
group links.
 Feedback

• Look at each others posts and comment

 Essay
• Write a 500 words essay on disability
representation based on your research and analysis.

• Title:
• The representation of disabled people in the media
often resort to stereotypes. Explore how disability
is represented and how new media may be
changing our views.
 Plenary

• Are there any conclusions that we can reach from

what we have read and researched?
 Sci-Fi and Disability
• Watch clips.

• How is blindness represented in Daredevil?

• Why do you think this is?
• Daredevil Trailer
 Analysis example
• Watch scene from
• Watch scene from • Born on the Fourth of July
Scent of a Woman
• Analyse the scene in the
• Follow analysis on same way as Scent of a
page 28 Woman.
• Are there details you
can add? • Here is the contextual
information you will need:
• Tom Cruise’s character is a
patriotic soldier who has
• Scent of a woman returned disabled from
Vietnam.