Homework for this week

Please complete the following two tasks, started in class, and be prepared to discuss them first lesson next week. You can work in pairs if you want to, but you both need to have written responses:

Task 1 : Fact Finding

One of the first groups to draw attention to the politics of representation in the media were the feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s, who pointed out the limited range of representations of women in the media.

What were their key arguments about the representations of women in the media, and the impact this had on the perception and role of women in society?

Task 2: Feminist Theory

Laura Mulvey’s (1975) influential work ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ argued that mainstream Hollywood film was the product of a male-dominated and controlled industry.

What films formed the basis of her research?

What were her findings?

Explore what the following terms mean :

Voyeurism

Narcissism

Scopophilia