Representation

analyse media representation in one of your coursework production

The media product I will be analysing in this will be my AS thriller. Representations of women, men and society can be applied to my work.

Vergers 'men act women appear' theory is challenged in my thriller as both main characters are women and in the opening we only see the man to appear on a picture. Although Gauntlett theory says there are questions about the feminine identity as the main character of the protagonist is a women and looks feminine but acts masculine in multiple ways, such as her strength conforms to Vergers theory. That women have to become masculine in be able to act and move the story along.
this goes against the general stereotype of women we see in most other films as they are just there to be looked at for the 'male gaze'.

Walter Lippmann's theory of needing both binary opposites to create a story that makes sense can be applied as I have the good guy and the bad guy although this is unclear at the beginning to the audience but the story unravels within the film of who's who, this would make the audience want to keep watching to find out more about the characters and there backgrounds.

Chandlers theory of representation of society is constructed and created as hyper real can been seen in the thriller as the car hits the actress although in real life it was staged.

Overall my thriller is not conforming to the typical stereotypes as the main characters are both women and this is not very common within the industry and they are not portrayed as being the sex object just there for the male gaze.