Today has been a really weird day... I accidently missed my lessons, due to difficulties getting into college. But whilst I missed my lessons, I have been doing work on my Media catalogue, which is now totalling up to 10 items - Most of which I have found today, and also written about (These will be shown tomorrow or Wednesday)...
Here are some of the things that I have found:
Over the weekend, I went into the library in Southampton, and I found a very interesting book called "The Television Genre Book". In this book, there was a section about "Unruly Women in sitcoms", which I found very interesting because it talks a lot about how women are represented differently in certain sitcoms than you would normally expect them to be like. For example, the book gives an example of Rosanne - She is like the head of a family, always keeping the family in order, keeping her husband in order, and they are trying to be a normal "Nuclear family", but however, something always gets in the way. Rosanne is also seen to be different to typical woman because of the way that she is shown to be: Hard working, and she shouts a lot. However, a British example is also given. There is the example of Absolutely Fabulous, which represents woman not stereotypically, but they are shown to be contempary women, and show that they can do the same things that men can do: Smoke, Drink and do whatever they want, and this is not what you'd expect in a typical sitcom, where you'd either see a typical family (Mum, Dad, 2.5 kids), or a very hot woman that every man has a crush on, and who uses her femininity to get what she wants.
I also looked on a website called "Emag" which has an article on it talking about the representation of women in all different TV. For example, it talks about Friends, where women seem to be shown in a positive light, but there is more that meets the eye where it talks about Monica being a chef (Typically, a man's job - But also maybe representing women who belong in the kitchen - No sexism intended at all), Phoebe giving birth, and Rachel being a typical woman who loves shopping (Giving off the typical "Daddy's spoilt little girl" representation), but then soon realising she can stand on her own two feet, when she gives birth, eventually gets in a steady relationship, and realising what being a mum is all about.
However, it does show another representation of women. For example, women can be shown as equal to men in certain TV shows, where we see Women in the office, doing exactly what men do. This is also the same for shows like "Law and Order", or "CSI", where we see women actually investigating murders etc. Much like the UK's "The Bill" where we often see Women police officers.
Many of these representations can be seen in various different British Sitcoms. For example, Are You Being Served shows several different representations of Women. There is the older, more hard working women, like the one that owns the shop (I don't know much about Are You Being Served, but I have studied it before), and then there is the more younger assistant, who represents the sexy feminine type of woman. This gives the audience several different representations of women, which can be clearly seen.
Again, I wasn't in lesson today, but this is what I got up to so far. There are 10 items in my catalogue, which I will write about another time... So Long Bloggers!
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