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Introduction to Representation - 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Film Poster

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Men and women are represented in very different ways in media, and has done for many years. On one hand, women are most often always objectified, used to satisfy the male gaze. They are used as sexual objects, there to pleasure the male audience and that alone. Examples of this could be from 'High School Comedies' such as 'Staten Island Summer' and 'Hall Pass'. In each of the movie's film posters, they feature a half naked girl, either about to take her clothes off or is posed seductively, trying to grab male attention. Some may say that it is satire, and that they are making fun of high school in general (as it's all full of teenagers) but the idea to still draw in a male audience is there. In the film poster, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', the woman is represented in a very different way. Instead of revealing clothes, she is fully clothed in a black, some-what leather outfit. This immediately shows the audience that she's alternativ...
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Saga Magazine (Angela Rippon) - Representation of Old People in the Media

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Newspaper - Representation of Young People in the Media

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moral panic - a feeling of fear that is spread among a large number of people that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society.  ( when a media source shows an idea over and over again that people see it so much and start to believe it) there is a stereotypical representation of young people within the media. this idea is portrayed in so many different ways, like drug use, gangs, teenage pregnancy, violence, etc, and adults see all of this and create a negative view of teenagers in their minds, although not every single teenager is like this. the reason this happens is because adults do not know teenagers personally unless they have teenage children, thus they believe the media (especially newspapers) when they write articles about how bad teenagers are.  in the newspaper, the title says 'ice hits schools' - meaning adults will read this and think meth will be in every school ever. 
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