PREP
1. Find one example of
the representation of a woman and say how she is represented.
On two of the newspapers, there is a line drawing of a woman wearing lingerie.
This is an advert for a company and is in the bottom right corner for both newspapers.
The image is very big and does take up quite a bit of space so they could get
the attention of women. It was thought that women weren’t supposed to read the
newspapers as this was for the husband to as it wouldn’t be seen as right or
perhaps ‘proper’. The advert was used to catch a women’s eye if they happen to
glance at what their husband is reading. They were supposed to only see this
and then put it down or go and buy it to please their significant other. The
woman is represented as slim and curvy which is the typical beauty standards
for women which is wrong. The clothes they are wearing in the drawing are very
revealing as well. This is very sexist as women can do much more than pose for
lingerie.
2. Find another
contrasting example of a woman and say how she is represented
A contrasting example of a women from the newspapers would be on the newspaper
from the 30th October 1966. There is a large picture of the Queen
looking emotional yet numb. Although the picture isn’t of the finest quality,
you can still clearly see that she looks quite shocked and very sorrowful. This
picture would be quite rare for a few reasons. One being that she would
normally have to put on a brave face and be less emotional when out in public
but this time she wept and was very upset. Another reason would be that she wouldn’t
usually visit places other than hospitals only she did visit where the horrific
tragedy took place in Aberfan. On the front page, the Queen has a lot of
emotional shock that day whilst visiting as she never imagined it to be as worse
as it was.
3. Find one example of
a news story about the Cold War
In the newspaper on the 30th October 1966, there was a story
included about the cold war. The cold war was a period of tension and conflict
between the Soviet Union and the United States. The story title reads: ‘America
accused of spy frame-up.’ At this time there would have been a lot of coverage
on the matter as it was an important and growing topic that lasted about 44 years-
although it would not have been covered in a lot of detail for all of this
time.
4. Find one example of
a story about a domestic disaster
One story that I found that was about domestic disaster was in the
newspaper from again the 30th of October 1966. ‘Queen visits the
mourning valley’ This is obviously a disaster as many lives were tragically
lost that day. It was a very sore and emotional story and the Queen decided
that after a week and a day, it was time for her to visit the town and pay her respects
and comfort those who had lost loved ones.
5. Find one example of
a story about a European disaster
In the newspaper from the 6th November
there is a story that says: ‘Plane hits Alps in snowstorm’ This is honestly so tragic
as seven lives were reportedly lost this day. This disaster happened on the 5th
of November and there was no hope of finding any survivors as the place crashed
into a mountain wall.
PLEASE ADD THE QUESTIONS AT THE TOP Mark 10/10
ReplyDeleteq.1 Yes - it shows that newspapers believed that this was the extent of women's interest - rather than in hard news
q.2 Yes
q.3 yes
q.4 yes
q.5 yes