Representation of Women

1. Who wrote about the “final girl” in 1992?
   Carol Clover
2. In what book did they write about the “final girl”?
   Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.
   
3. List three traits of the “final girl”/three ‘conventions’.
   Three conventional traits that we  often find the "final girl" in a horror movie to possess can include; having a unisex name, having a masculine front when compared to other female characters and it is also common for them to be virginal.
4. Who wrote about existing research on women’s roles in media texts in 1983?
   Jeremy Tunstall in 'The Media in Britain'.
5. What were the 4 roles mentioned?
   Domestic, Sexual, Consumer and Marital.
6. In 1992 research showed that men dominated women on-screen, but by what ratio?
   2:1
7. What was the only genre in which the ratio of males to females was more equal?
   Advertising
8. Name one of the three problems with the findings?
   -Men had the occupations
   -Men were shown away from the home
   -Men were shown to be figures of authority
9. Why does the reading suggest that Ripley (Alien) is ‘more progressive’ than Lara Croft (TR)?
   Lara is seen as being sexual and objectified.
   
   
10. What are the 3 ‘C’s when discussing the portrayal of women in some lifestyle magazines?
    Cooking, Cleaning and Caring.
11. Who wrote Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema?
    Laura Mulvey (Autumn, 1975)
12. (Briefly) describe what is meant by the ‘male gaze’Technical camerawork/angling and framing shots so that a viewer is considered to be the 'appraising heterosexual male" towards a female character for sexual purposes. Male gaze implies that women are objects, there only to be watched and enjoyed.
13. Give an example
    Point of View, Close Ups and Reaction Shots
14. Which magazine removed the male centrefold in the 1980s and why?
    Cosmopolitan - more funny than sexual.