task 2

MacKinnon, K. (2003). Representing men maleness and masculinity in the media. London: Arnold.

'Men nurture their society by shedding their blood, their sweat, and their semen, by bringing home food for both child and mother, by producing children, and by dying if necessary in faraway places to provide a safe haven for their people. This, too, is nurturing n the sense of endowing or increasing'
pg 10 (Gilmore, 1990, p. 230)

- This quote is saying that men are supposed to be dominant and going out to work while women are supposed to sit at home and do the housework. this reinforces the stereotypes of males and females.

Hartley, J. (2002). Communication, cultural and media studies: the key concepts (3. ed.). London [u.a.: Routledge.

'stereotype has entered public life as a term that is used to describe how fixed qualities or traits may be attributed to groups in the way they are represented in various media'

- This qute is saying how different stereotypes are shown through various media and that audience has a different interprtation of each. I can use this as it talks about the stereotypes and i can expand on this talking about specific youth stereotype.

Chang, J. (2005). Can't stop, won't stop: a history of the hip-hop generation. New York: St. Martin's Press.

'LL Cool J comes out with one leg of his pants rolled up, the next day everyone is doing the same thing'
(pg xii)

- I can use this as it's talking about how hip hop trend gets followed just because one big star is doing it and so the audience following it will also do it.

'We are tired of praying and marching and thinking and learning Brothers want to start cuttinh and shooting and stealing and burning'
(Gil Scott-Heron pg 41)

- This quote is saying that people changed as hip hop grew and how it went from poistive to negative.

'"we want porem that kill"
Assassin poems, poeams that shoot guns. Poems that wrestly cops into alloys and take their weapons leaving them dead'
(Amiri Baraka pg 299)

- this quaote again suggests that hip hop is negative and that all people want is violence etc

'there are a lot of people who are doing something positive...But too often, the ones that get the most recognition are those emphasizing the negative'

- i can use this as it suggests that there are positives of hip hop although the negatives out weigh the positives and so this could be a reason for why teenagers might be influenced in a negative way.

A2 media studies

' it is as if men always have a reason to be photographed or otherwise represented which extends beyond their appearance'

- there is more to men then their appearance although i could use this quote to agure that even for men in present media its always about appearance.