We talked about how representation is used in film to maintain a level of verisimilitude through aspects such as diegetic sound and the general diegesis.
A theorist by the name of Richard Dyer argues that representation is a politcal tool:
[How] social groups are treated in cultural representation is part and parcel of how they are treated in life, that poverty, harassment, self-hate and discrimination (in housing, jobs, educational opportunity and so on) are shored up and instituted by representation.
In the modern world and more precisely in Britain youth culture is portrayed by the media as a collective majority of 'hoodies' and unemployed, knife-wielding, ill spoken individuals.
This breed of youths has now become a stereotype which assimilates to both genders.
We also spoke about the work of the theorist Stuart Hall, who said:
"The media have the power to represent the world in certain ways. And because there are so many different and conflicting was in which meaning about the world can be constructed, it matters profoundly what and who gets left out, and how things, people, events and relationships are represented."
Another topic that we covered is the way in which the media is read. It is read in three different ways;
- preffered
- dominant
- oppositional
It is through this that we in a sense revisited the theory of Barthes which suggests there are three stages to gaging our own oppionion on a media text. They are as follows;
- Connotation
- Denotation
- Myth
Connotation and Denotation have polysemous meanings. Polysemous meaning; having multiple meanings or interpretations.
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