Independent Study Plan

Theorists To Include

Laura Mulvey - How females are seen to be inferior towards her theory and how male dominance has increase through the male gaze. Linking it to my text I will be describing how that has taken place.

Dyer - In Dyer's theroy i will be linking his theory to how fmelaes are taken eriously in films, and their roles, some times pretty females are used for an attraction for example Jessica Alber in Fantastic Four and Hally Barry in Xmen. Some people don;t take them seriously

Gunter - I will be using this theory to relate how females and male act on Tv and their differnt roles, for example theur speaking roles etc and how they differ. This can relate to the male dominance in the media.

Tuchman - The female annihilation of television and films. how females are wiped off and neva payed attention to (same as dyer's theory)

Davis - How females may be common in other genre of television and how they are represeneted in them.

Kaplan - How females in the media are not given a chance to speak and how they act how they are told to act.

Websites To Include

• http://www.genderads.com/

Representations of feamles and their roles, and how males are also portrayed the same.

• http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/represent.html

How representation can be analysed and caused.

• http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/22/power_chicks.html
  

Power within women, relates to superior females.

• http://www.springerlink.com/content/a882401042v00180/

A way in how female negative representations had been formed.

• http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze09.html
  

Notes on the 'gaze', Laura Mulvey.

• http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/index.html
  

Gender in the media.

• http://theoryhead.com/gender/
  

Media gender, David Gauntlett.

Books To Include

• Phillip Rayner, Peter Wall & Stephen Kruger (2001) - A'S Media Studies: the Essential Introduction - USA & Canada, 'Routledge'

• John Price & Joe Nicholas (2003) - A'S Media Studies - United Kingdom , 'Nelson Thornes Ltd'

The Plan

In my independent study i have focused on the representation of females in the media and have chosen Xmen 3 as my text to resraech about how females are represented. The question i want to resraech on is how females are seen to be inferior to males today. using xmen three as my modern text i want show how females are seen to be inferior by their power within the film and the sue of their pwoers. Also i want to relate the film to how females can be represented negatively for example the male gaze; how females are seen as sex objects in the media.

The film is a modern text and shows how they are seen today in films etc. i have rsearched trailers and adverts on how they are represented in the media to exapnd my point. i have used youtube by doing this. In my first section of the study i will be relating to M,R,Id and N to show how they are seen to be inferior.

M - the costumes used, shots-angle's, lighting etc

R - how the females are seen within the fim, the types of powers they have to make them inferior, how they are used as the male gaze etc

Id - the ideologies put across through the male doinance and a patriarchle society

N - how the females are used in the narrative

In the secon section of my study i will relate to some other texts and advertisments etc, how females are represented etc. using this research will help me fufil part of the introduction. i will be inlcuding theorist that may come relevant and websites that may come in handy. some book resraech may be included in this section but not as much as i will be using most of the book research further ahead.