The mass media has always influenced how we, the audience, view and consume the ideologies and stereotypes created and manipulated by the mass media. Within this essay we will be comparing and contrasting the representations of actresses and actors within the magazine cover industry. Depending on genre and country we will be using the key concepts such as denotation, connotation,visual culture and sexism etc. the case studies are ‘prestige’ magazine cover featuring Chris Hemsworth, which we will refer to as ‘image 1’, second case study is FIRE magazine cover featuring Jennifer Lawrence, referred to as image 2, Vogue magazine cover featuring Marion Cotillard, referred to as image 3 and finally Elle magazine which features Jean Dujardin which is referred to as image 4. Within this essay we will be aiming to answer the following question:
How actresses and actors are visually represented in the media?
Media has always influenced how we, the audience, represent men and women with idealistic and unrealistic conventions. Our daily lives consume so much stigma and ideologies of what a man and woman represent that we no longer are able to fully distinguish between what is realistic and what is pure idiocy and unattainable. This is very transparent within the magazine covers that we have selected. As we can see there is an obvious difference between
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So why have we not outgrown these stereotypes and traditional views? As our visual culture industries might have made the sexism more discrit and less visible, it doesn’t mean that it’s no longer there, the cross cultural aspect also seems to be very much the same in both France and