Friday, 31 January 2014

Representation - Female

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2549143/Amy-Willerton-looks-pretty-plum-jumpsuit-The-Saturdays-singer-Vanessa-White-shies-away-cameras-boyfriend.html


"All eyes on you: Amy Willerton looks playful in a plum playsuit at designer eyewear launch" This title represents Amy Willerton as a classy person. "Designer eyewear launch" says that she's famous enough to go to these kinds of events. The images in the article are all of her walking towards and inside the venue. She's smiling in all of them, so this creates cohesion between the image and the word "playful" in the title. "The Bristol beauty" is a demeaning description of Willerton because it's telling the readers that that's all she is - just a beautiful woman from Bristol. This tells the audience that if you're pretty, you can get famous. This is a negative representation of Willerton because it's assuming that's all she is. It also sends out a negative message  to the readers because the representation it creates will make the readers (especially female) feel pressured to look like Amy Willerton. Saying the "21-year-old model looked pretty" makes her an inspirational person to females who fall into this age group because most women want what's stereotyped as the perfect body. With Willerton being a model, she'll set aspirations for other women to be just like her.

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