The Sun:

"Cops battle riots across London"

Violence spreads to Birmingham, Liverpool

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article3742133.ece

"Descent into hell
as London burns"

Woman leaps to safety from riot inferno

Anarchy in Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol

This headline gives readers a real insight

into the horror and upset locals within the

rioting area's are going through. The news

article in the Sun describes the incident as

a shame for people moving to the UK for a

better life, to  somewhere that leaves people

'servely traumitised'.

This is one of the Sun's front page news at the time of the riots. It clearly states the headline 'Shop a moron' with regards to the rioters being percieved as a moron. The images of the various rioters within London have a front page spread to support the police in their investigations towards the riots.

















The Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023554/Tottenham-riot-2011-London-lockdown-David-Cameron-flies-home.html

"London on lockdown and Cameron flies home:  Police face gangs armed with petrol bombs and poles on THIRD night of riots and cynical looting"

• Violence in Hackney, Peckham, Deptford, Lewisham, Clapham and Croydon this evening

Prime Minister David Cameron is returning from Italy tonight to chair COBRA meeeting

Met's acting commissioner Tim Godwin urged parents to get their children off the streets

Police in Birmingham say several shops have been attacked

300 officers drafted in from 12 other forces to bring unrest under control

215 people arrested since Saturday night - including one aged 11 - and 25 charged

 

"Union Point: The Tottenham landmark that survived the Blitz... reduced to a smouldering shell in one night by the rioters"

The Guardian

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/20/harry-potter-star-jailed-disorder-riots

"Harry Potter star jailed for two years for violent disorder during London riots"

Jamie Waylett, who played Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe, also admitted swigging from a stolen bottle of champagne

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/13/teenager-killed-pensioner-riots-named

"Teenager who killed pensioner during London riots named"

Youth who admitted manslaughter of Richard Mannington Bowes named as Darrell Desuze as order banning identification is lifted

 How do The Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Sun differ in their coverage of the London Riots?

Compare:

• What 'facts' we are told
• What reasons are given for the riots
• What adjectives are used to describe the rioters
• What images accompany the stories

Looking for Eric:

Production:

Production Companies:

Film Four, Sixteen Films, Canto Brothers, Wild bunch, France 2 Cinema, Why not productions, BIM Distribuzione, Tornasol Films, Les Films du Fleuve & Radio Television Beldge Francophone (RTBF)

Funded?

Mainly budgeted by Ken Loaches company; Sixteen Films, with a budget of £4 Million.

Filming Location:

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Distribution:

Where the film was screened?

Theatres: Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Japan, UK, Portugal

Cinema: Italy, Brazil, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Finland, Switzerland, USA

DVD: Italy, UK, Netherlands

Exhibition:

Box Office (Profits)

$11,546,932

Awards:

Won:

2009 -British Independent Film Award

Nominated for?

2009 - Palme d'Or (Ken Loach)

European Film Award

2010 -

Evening Standard British Film Award

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

Laura Mulvey and the Male Gaze

The Male Gaze consists of the portrayal of Women and therefore the issue that women are seen as sexualised objects. Not only does the internalization of the gaze change a women's perception of themselves but makes them as an individual think of themselves as a object. Throughout the media, females are constantly looked at in a sexualised perspective and therefore are displayed in female nudity and a source of pleasure instead of the view behind their personality. Men on the other hand are the dominate individual and therefore take up the role of 'looker' whereby they view the women as the object.

Portrayals of Girls and Women

Magazines are based on informing their demographic profile of their interests; however they do this in a way that the magazine company works their persuasion skills through a front page and therefore ensure the magazine jumps out to a reader in comparison with other competing ones. They do this by ensuring a magazine consists of interesting story lines and tactics whereby the target market has the intentions to read it.

However a quote from ‘Goddard’ states that magazine titles such as minx and heat are all ‘little concentrated capsules of meaning’ and therefore present the basic definition and meaning of a magazine just by its name.

Statistics show however that in the last 20 years that there has been a growth in the presence and influence of women as regards female thrives over looking like those in the magazines (Celebrities). Magazines continually bring up the same issues as regards to body image and self identity.

These portrayals consist of issues like:

·        Beauty (within narrow conventions)  

People among magazines represent beautiful skin – ‘Spotless freckle less and flawless skin’. This is an issue because due to a large majority of magazines based on teen readers (victims of Acne – scaring) means that they are having an effect on young people going to deep lengths in getting rid of what they class as in perfect skin.

·        Size/physique (again, within narrow conventions)

Body – Breast implants at young ages are perused within magazines to attract the male species which all down to media. Magazines are constantly representing women with the ‘perfect’ ‘38G boobs’! However Surgery is also an issue – saving up just to get the wish of looking like those within a magazine. At a young age weight is a big issue and people still worry because of the impact. ‘It’s all about the body and not the brain’.

·        Sexuality

Magazine articles are constantly perusing normal issues such as man problems when in fact there’s a large majority out there that are in fact ‘Gay’. However we are made to feel as individuals that being ‘Straight’ will make us happy and there is never advice on life with the same sex.

·        Emotional (as opposed to intellectual)

·        Dealings and Relationships (independence/freedom) Women are constantly made to feel they can’t be dominant without the male species along they’re side when in fact women can be successful without them. It’s believed that women not taken seriously as regards to ‘how can a women take up a dominant place in society. (Mood swings etc). Magazines are repeatedly displaying ‘Dream Men’ and the ways in which we deal with being alone.

Although the media does produce negative stereotyping and both limit and make women powerful. There is no reality within magazines and women are constantly buying these magazines to get information on how they can improve themselves and be a happy individual all down to the male species.

‘Media creates consciousness, its what’s put out there, as regards to women representation that creates insecurity’

 

http://www.bristolfeministnetwork.com/index.html

This website supports my view on the negative feedback of the representation of women. It gave me more inspiration to put acrosss the idea within my blog that women are in a way 'victims' of representation.

Research on the clear gender bias of women:

• Objectification: This is based on women idealisation and added within the media for what they look like and not what they do.
• Absence: Women and girls are missing, they are not as numerously or as diversely represented as men. 
• Misrepresentation: Women are represented very narrowly, as wives, girlfriends, mums, preoccupied with dieting and shopping. 
• Exploitation: Women's bodies and female sexuality are used to sell products and sensationalise content.
• Distortion: Unrealistic representations of "beauty" are damaging body image and the way we value women in general.