Representation of Age

Representation refers to the construction of media languages which are used to portray a particular type of filmic world to an audience (slide). This essay shall outline different treatments of filmmaking used to establish certain societal groups from the critically acclaim superhero film The Dark Knight (2008) directed by Christopher Nolan. This sequel film follows Batman, with help from Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent eradicating crime from Gotham city until a crazy mastermind criminal, the Joker appears in Gotham, creating chaos. The first paragraph introduces the stereotypical representation of masculinity in superhero film through the aspects of mise-en-scene and acting of the male protagonist. Storyline and mise-en-scene help establish the representation of pretty, leading- female characters that semi-disrupts the damsel in distress stereotype. Before lastly describing the representation of menacing villains through cinematography decisions, sound and an actor’s performance.

"Never Just Pictures" by Susan Bordo, is about how today's society looks at different types of media to get an idea of what they should look like. In this essay, the author tries to get the readers to take a closer look at today's

In today’s vast globalized world, representation is present and has left its impact everywhere, from politics to media to parts of our everyday life. Representation is defined as the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way (Oxford University Press, 2016). This has shaped the way people think, talk and view the things around them. Thus, media representation is the portrayal of a group, community, person, event, idea, experience or perspective by the media, regardless of whether it is visual or verbal. Media representation is also a choice made in constructing facets of reality such as people, places, objects and events in media. Such representations exist in a multitude of forms such as print, films and writing. Generally, it would be difficult to showcase every feature of the person or thing, hence, media has been essentialising the representations to suit the views of the majority.

In today’s society, media is a part of everyone’s lives, whether people want it to be or not. One of the most openly disliked components of the media is the thin, ideal, hour-glass figure that is

Psychological factors could influence a person’s mental wellbeing and these include learning difficulties and mental health illness such as depression which can cause more than just a low mood it can leave people feeling very sad, empty, hopeless or guilty for weeks, months or even years which could lead to suicide. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which is an anxiety disorder which causes people to experience obsessive thoughts followed by compulsive behaviours. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which is triggered by events in a person’s life that involve real or threatened death, severe injury or sexual assault.

Media plays a huge part in the lives of individuals in their regular activities in the society. Surely, it has impacted on how we see the world and ourselves. Numerous different sorts of media including television shows, radio, movies, advertisements, and daily papers are put on the web and random places. This paper investigates how the role of representation in media is important.

In Stuart Ewen’s All Consuming Images, the preface “Introduction to the New Edition” opens by giving the audience varying progressing images, from break dance to Madonna to Windows 95. This demonstrates a fast change in society: what matters in the history may not be an important issue now. Ewen then questions how a book written earlier still remains important and deserves republication. The book is durable because of the fact that it was written when the idea “images are everywhere” begins to develop. From political stand point, all the images, or specifically propaganda, that people see are to manipulate people’s emotions. In economic sphere, due to the ubiquitous advertising, marketing

As today’s world increasingly turns towards new types of media to create and circulate meaning, the role of rhetoric is no longer confined to its textual or oral basis. Visual rhetoric expands beyond initial impression and contains deeper implications of existing power hierarchies, ideological messages, and cultural significance. As a result, theorists such as Irit Rogoff, Sue Hum, and Janice Radway aim to reevaluate the role of visuals in rhetoric. Irit Rogoff examines this shift in his work, “Studying Visual Culture.” Rogoff argues imagery is rhetorical because, “Images convey information, afford pleasure or displeasure, influence style, determine consumption, and mediate power relations” (15). Considering images elicit these responses by those who view them, it is assumed that culture shapes and is shaped by vision.

Logos is the first main effective element in Miss Representation to persuade the audience to admit the gender power imbalance in the society. Based on components, that are included in Logos are suitably organized in to the Toulmin System of Logic, Logos is used to explain how the media affects the society. Newson uses this system as the model to recognize, analyze, and construct her logical argument. In the documentary, there is a list of different aspects in the documentary, such as claim, rebuttal, warrant, evidence, and backing. For example, the evidences are used to express the imbalance between men and women in everyday life.

Mental illnesses result from complex interactions between the body, mind and surrounding environment of a person. Some factors which can influence mental illness include; biological factors such as hormones and genetics, use of alcohol and drugs, long term and acute stress, social and personal factors such as family breakdowns, violence,

The difference between the population growth of African American older adults and the slower growth rate of younger labor force age African Americans in the forthcoming years is an example of what demographers describe as an inverted age pyramid, according to Wright (2005).

The message that was presented in the video “Miss Representation” was that the media is a powerful tool to shape the world. However, the media has been utilized not for the benefit of human being instead in the most negative way that anyone can possibly think of. It has indeed shape the representation of women globally in this generation. It degenerated the name of woman and what they are capable in this world whether they are use for political, and/or economical. The trailer for Miss Representation presented this powerful message through the usage of a video of selected people being interviewed about feminism and the cruelty that they endure during the twentieth century. This highly sensitive message in the video of Miss representation is

They are many portrayals of the Media. They can be used to uncover the truth or be used to convince the public of somebody else’s opinion. The Novel Room by Emma Donoghue portrays the circumstances of an extreme kidnaping. After Ma and Jack escape they enter a world that wants to know everything about them. When Ma and Jack leave the Room they are greeted by the media. Through the eyes of Jack the media does not care about the actual story or the suffering Jack and Ma went under, but instead care about how good of a mom Ma is. In Room the media portrays Ma as a bad mother through breastfeeding, the interview, and Jack’s public image.

Stuart Hall builds upon the the work of Roland Bathes semotics the study of signs although rather than "The ‘object’ of production practices and structures in television is the production of a message: that is, a sign-vehicle or rather sign-vehicles of a specific kind organized, like any other form of communication or language, through the operation of codes, within the syntagmatic chains of a discourse how things in the media are circulated and consumed revealing a new communication theory through the messages produced . Stuart hall introduces the gap between the production that is encoding and the representation that is decoding , he examines the relationship between the audience and the media consumed. 'Encoding-Decoding is an active audience theory developed by Stuart Hall which examines the relationship between a text and its audience '

Stuart Price wrote that representation is "the way in which ideas, objects, people, groups and life-forms are depicted by the mass media" and "is the method used by the mass media to create meanings." In other words, representation is the mediation of visual and technical codes to construct a certain depiction of an aspect of reality. Since the first music videos in the 1970's, music videos have repeatedly been criticised for heavily sexualized representations of women. A 2012 study by Cynthia Frisby found that sexual representations of women were common even when the