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Double Page Spread - Analysis

This double page spread is taken from a Cosmopolitan magazine. It's an interview featuring Jennifer Lawrence, who is described in the introduction as a "rising star". The introduction to the interview is placed under the headline. This informs the reader who the interviewee is, and will sometimes briefly mention an upcoming film, tour, song, album, or event that has happened. It might also include the name of the interviewer. 

The headline for this double spread reads "Jennifer's Mystique". Mystique is the name of Lawrence's character in her film X-Men: First Class, so Cosmopolitan has incorporated this element of Lawrence's career into the article. The word "mystique" has connotations of glamour, mystery and allure. Lawrence is seen as a fashion icon, especially on red carpets where she's at her most glamorous, so the connotation of glamour is shown here. The magazine has also referred to Lawrence by just "Jennifer", her first name. This instantly makes the interview personal to the reader. It makes the reader assume the interview is personal and that perhaps they will be reading a personal interview. 

The main image for the interview is an image of Jennifer Lawrence. The photo is a close up from her shoulders up. Her clothes and make up are very classy - nothing has been overdone or seems too extravagant. Lawrence is making eye contact with the camera and her facial expression is fairly serious. This sets the tone of the interview. The reader can assume that the interview will probably be based around any work she has coming up, and not really about her personal life. If she was doing a crazy pose with an over the top facial expression, the reader may assume the interview would be about personal life and secrets and such, but the fact that Lawrence seems serious in the photo, with the word "mystique" in the headline, tells the reader that the interview is going to be mostly quite serious. There is a small caption by the image of Lawrence that reads "Young, determined and ready to take on the world". This is a small caption for the main image.

At the top of the page it says "cosmo upfront". This is what Cosmopolitan lists their interviews under. 'Upfront' is a good word to use because it tells the reader that the interviewee is not going to hold anything back in the interview. At the bottom of the page, there is the date of the issue, the name of the magazine, and the page number.  The words are black and red. These are the two colours used for the text on the rest of the page, so it fits in with the theme of the page.

Casualty - Female Representation

• Woman talks down to man, breaks stereotype of male dominance. 
• Female paramedic is superior over the male - female is first on the scene.
• Women are not sexualised. They're seen in doctor's uniform and paramedic uniform, so they're not seen as sexual objects. The doctor and nurses uniforms are blue which is often stereotyped as a male colour, so there's still that element of male dominance.
• Paramedics are often male-dominated roles - female paramedic differs from this.
• The head of the hospital is a female so this breaks the stereotype and is another way that females are represented as superior against males.
• All the nurses and doctors around the patient are female which represents power and intelligence from women.