Representation of Women Quiz

1.) Who wrote about the 'final girl' in 1992?

Carol Clever

2.) In what book did they write about the 'final girl'?

Men, Women and Chainsaws

3.) List three traits of the 'final girl' / three conventions'

Androgynous, innocent and usually aware (fights back)

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

Jeremy Tunstall

5.) What were the 4 roles mentioned?

Domestic, Sexual, Consumer and Marital

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

Outnumbered two to one

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

Prime time TV adverts

8.) Name one of the three problems with the findings?

Males were more likely to represent authorities while women were  more likely to represent the consumer

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

Because Lara Croft was still a heroine but more objectified and sexualised than ripley who was much more modern and represented better ideologies than just objectification of her body.

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.) Describe what is meant by the 'male gaze'

How the frame of the camera is positioned

13.) Give an example

Focusing on specific female parts, close up camera angle slowly panning up the body of a women concentrating on legs, hips and chest

14.) Which magazine removed the male centerfold in the 1980's and why?

Cosmo because women found it more comedic than as a gratification.