Representation quiz (research)

            1. Who wrote about the “final girl” in 1992?

Written by 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 3 traits/conventions of the “final girl”

The ability to fight back against danger, virginal and androgynous

4. Who wrote about the existing research on women’s roles in media texts in 1983?

Jeremy Tunstall

5. What were the 4 roles mentioned?

Domestic, Sexual, marital and Consumer

6. In 1992 research showed that men dominated women on-screen, but by what ratio?

2:1 was the ratio when researched at this time

7. What was the only genre in which the ratio of males to females was more equal?

Advertising, mainly TV adverts

8. Name one of the three problems with the findings

Men were shown to have an occupation and to be away from home compared to the women.

9.  Why does the reading suggest that Ripley (Alien) is ‘more progressive’ than Lara Croft (TR)?

Lara croft is represented as a sexualised character

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

12.  (Briefly describe what is meant by the ‘male gaze’

When the women within the film are shown to be sexualised/an object of only the man’s gaze and the audience sees this through the male’s point of view even if they are not male.

13.  Give an example

Shots which can be used to be through their eyes such as POV

14. Which magazine removed the male centrefold in the 1980s and why?

Cosmopolitan created a magazine which made them laugh rather than finding it sexualised which was the normal thing for magazines of that time.