Task 1
This is England, Shane Meadows, 2007
Account for the representation of teenagers, the working class and England in This is
England. (About 800 words)

Task 2
In today’s media alternative representations of social groups and places are not possible. Discuss. (About 800 words)

Task 3
What is the significance of the media’s representation of Africa? (About 800 words)

Further research
Representation of minorities
Boyz n the Hood, 1995
Barber Shop, 2002
Crash 2004
Get Rich or die tryin, 2005
Kidulthood, 2007
Hotel Rwanda, 2001
Blood Diamond, 2005
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee 1989
Britain
The Simpsons, sitcom on TV
Friends, sitcom on TV
Notting Hill, 1994
Layer Cake, 2006
Snatch, 1999 Green Street, 2005
Football Factory, 2004
About a Boy
Bridget Jones
Desert Flower, Sept 2009
Lavender Hill Mob, 1949
Parole Officer, 1999
Beat Girl, 1960
Passage to Pimlico, 1948
Gender
Moseley R, Read R, ‘Having it Ally’, – ‘Popular TV Post Feminism Feminist Media
Studies’ sage Pub, 2002
Dow B, Prime Time Femisim1996, Televison Media Culture and the Womens
Movement Since 1970, Pennsylvania Press
‘Women in film noir’, EA Kaplan, editor, BFI, 1998
Hunt M, Gurindha Chadha, www.screenonline.org.uk
Perkin T in Studying the Media Rayner, Dutton, et al www.mediaknowall.co.uk http://www.wif.org/ - women in film

Gauntlett D, ‘Men and Gender and Identity’ 2002, about new masculinity. Book
Website - www.theory.org.uk
Ariel Levy, ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the rise of raunch culture’, Free
Press 2005
Wolf Naomi, ‘The Beauty Myth, how images of beauty are used against woman’, first pub 1991, republished 2007.
Wolf Naomi, ‘Fire with Fire’
Figes Kate, ‘Because of her sex’
Macabe and Akass, ‘Reading Desperate Housewives, beyond the white picket fence’, IB Taurus 2006
Jeffries Sheila, Australian academic, radical feminist, some good ideas for inciting debate – ‘Beauty and Misogyny’ Book
Faludi Susan, ‘Backlash – ‘The undeclared war against women’ Vintage 1993 www.media-awareness.ca http://fair.org/ www.thestudentroom.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=40907... good on Bullet
Boy and case studies for background reading
Representations
Shary T, ‘Generation Multiplex, The Image of Youth in Contemporary American
Cinema’, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2002
Hooks bell ‘Yearning race, Gender and cultural politics, Boston, South End 1990
George Nelson, Black Face: Reflections on African Americans and the Movies, New
York, Harper Collins, 1994
Tasker Yvonne, ‘Spectacular Bodies: Gender Genre and the Action Cinema’ New
York, Routledge, 1994
‘Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ 1997 Ed, Reid M, Cambridge Film Handbook, www.media.guardian.co.uk - Bakari Kitwana - ‘Why white kids love hip hop’
Bogle D, ‘Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies (Book)
GENDER
‘Mediated Women’, Meyers Marian (Ed) 1996 Hampton Press www.feministing.com www.theoryhead.com/gender/ www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/ Nuts and Zoo weekly looks at misogynistic lads mags.
Negra Diana, ‘Offwhite Hollywood – American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom’,
Routledge, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media
Burchell Julie, Yeah, but no, but, why I’m proud to be chav’, The Times, (article) May
22, 2005

Wai Zubairu, The Western Media and the Representations of African Conflicts,
Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone, (article) Feb 2007