Essays about: "stereotypes in popular media"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words stereotypes in popular media.

1. 1. Transforming Heterotopia : Exploring how Women Danmei Fans Explore Gender, Build Community, and Circumvent Censorship

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikation

   Author : Xinwen Hu; [2023]
   Keywords : Danmei fandom; Chinese subculture; fanfiction; Censorship; Cultural studies;

   Abstract : Danmei fandom is a subcultural community of young women in China. In the context of strict online censorship in China, they engage in the practices of writing, sharing, and reading Danmei fanfic, which is fan secondary works that focuses on the romantic relationship between male characters in media content and popular culture productions. READ MORE

3. 2. Time to Love: Romantic comedies and narratives of LOVE – from a Swedish context

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Marianne Gabrielsson; [2022-08-23]
   Keywords : love; romcoms; masculine domination; doxa; embodiment; escapism;

   Abstract : This study explores the relation between love and romantic comedies, (aka romcoms), among people living in Sweden. Romcoms, being one of the most popular film genres ever, has often been subject to critique of not being serious enough and to derange people’s perceptions love. READ MORE

4. 3. Rainbow-Washing on Screen: Perceptions of 21st Century Popular Media Representations of Queer Identities in a Comparison between Sweden and Czechia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Elizabeth Hythova; [2022]
   Keywords : queer representation; stereotypes in popular media; social constructionism; heteronormativity; othering of minorities; queer theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how queer people perceive queer representations in popular media (film and TV) produced in recent years and how such representations affect queer people’s identity and self-perception, as well as how they mirror and reproduce heteronormative understandings of queerness. A cultural comparison between Czechia and Sweden in perceptions of heteronormativity and queer representations and media is also made. READ MORE

5. 4. Victim or murderer? : Discourse, representation & stereotypes in true crime

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Marie Eriksson; [2021]
   Keywords : discourse; representation; stereotypes; black women; true crime; anti-heroism;

   Abstract : This study explores the true crime documentary Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story and aims to investigate the protagonist Cyntoia Brown in relation to how her character and story is represented. Due to the consistent rise of awareness in equal rights, as well as the steady increase of black representation in popular television, one might think that it would reflect positively in mass media. READ MORE

6. 5. Greedy men and seductive females : A qualitative gender analysis of the representation of villains in the James Bond franchise

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Andreas Hammarstedt; [2020]
   Keywords : James Bond; Stereotypes; Popular culture; Villains; Gender; Qualitive analysis; Social constructionism;

   Abstract : The over 50-year-old movie icon James Bond is as current as ever. Since being the most prominent representation of a male hero and one of the world’s most recognizable movie icons, James Bond has been under the academicals loupe for many decades. READ MORE