Lesson 3 introduction to gender
- 1. BIG PICTURE A focus on representations of gender in a range of media texts KEYWORDS Representations – Analysis – Preferred, Oppositional and Negotiated Readings LEARNING OBJECTIVES Develop skills in reading media texts and taking focused notes about specific issues SUCCESS CRITERIA • Organised notes about micro issues • Answers to questions on still images Take your seat. Bag under your desk. Have your equipment and planner out. Unit 1 - Representations • Let's do the disney princesses quiz
- 2. TELL ME STUFF! TAKE ME THROUGH IT… LET ME HAVE A GO… DO I GET IT? 1 2 3 4 5 6 SETTING THE SCENE JOINING UP LEARNING LINKS TO LAST TIME PASSING ON KNOWLEDGE GUIDED PRACTICE & MODELLING INDEPENDENT PRACTICE – APPLYING THE SKILLS TO NEW SITUATIONS ASSESSMENT & FEEDBACK PULL IT TOGETHER JOINING UP LEARNING LINKS TO NEXT TIME
- 3. We are generalising here. We are talking about what tends to happen, and how things tend to be interpreted. We are talking about Dominant Readings as a starting point • Dominant Readings are culturally and historically specific. If you made a UK film about terrorists 25 years ago your terrorist characters would very probably be Irish. • Preferred Readings ask you to think about what the creators of the text are trying to do – what can you work out about what they want you to think? • Oppositional Readings deliberately ignore what you think they want you to think because it's up to you as the consumer/ audience and you know better. • Negotiated Readings are a bit of both – I get what they're trying to do here but I can't help bring my own point of view to this when I look at it. There are a number of different ways of thinking about how media texts make meaning and about the big question of what meanings they are most likely to make
- 4. Sex is biological. Gender is a personal and social construct. These are big issues in society at the moment It's an interesting time to be studying representations of gender (and of race, for similar but different specific reasons) Some of you might have very clear ideas about what all of this means but for the purposes of the course I'd like to be clear that we're talking about the above difference between 'Sex' and 'Gender' as a starting point, and that we're fundamentally talking about Gender all of the time in this work You might be asked to think about representations of gender... • Created through still images or moving images in films, tv, video games, photographs, posters and so on • Created through the use of narrative – through the things that happen in stories, through the way that characters have or lack agency, through the way they relate to other characters and to their actual, their stereotypical and their archtypical roles in narratives
- 5. Look at the magazine covers and the print advertisements in the presentation on the powerpoint I'd like you to choose two of them and to write in detail about what they're doing in terms of representations of gender and about how they do what they do Take your time Look at the models in the presentation Attention to detail is really important
- 6. 1. Can you identify a non-typical representation of gender in a media text you like and know? 2. 'Gender' doesn't just mean talking about women. Can you identify and discuss some interesting non-typical representations of masculinity in a media text you know and like?
- 7. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING How did this lesson fit into your other lessons? What is my top take- away from the lesson? Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do? o Keep up with new vocabulary o Keep looking and watching as students as well as fans – what are you starting to notice when you watch films or TV, or play games, or watch music video...