Critical Investigation - Historical text analysis and research Task 3

Big Brother 2000's UK 

Big brother is a type of reality Tv programme which was broadcast on channel 4 in 2000. Its been 29 series in total of Big brother. The show was filmed at Three Mills Studio in Bow, east london.  Compared to British reality TV show Geordie shore  it has its similarities about the two and also has its major differences. Iin comparison, in the 70’s the only way a reality TV show like  big brother  could be shown on television was if was broadcasted on educational TV or PBS and if it could inform, educate and entertain it audience at the same time. Whereas Geordie shore  is broadcasted on channel 4  for all viewers to access and made for only entertainment purposes.

 

Negative representation of young females in the media girls are degraded in different ways. Nowadays females are often over-sexualised, which only encourages boys to disrespect girls, and makes young girls believe that they have to act and look this way resulting in them obsessing over their weight, make-up, clothes, which they have as friends, and how they interact with the opposite sex.

 Representation of young females which has stayed the same is the use of the colour pink. Pink is stereotypically a 'girly' colour, and research suggests that pink represents immaturity, passiveness, innocence and weakness. Media often use pink to show that a character is portraying these characteristics. This can be negative as pink is known as a 'girly' colour and in saying this people are being sexist, as they are implying that females are immature, passive, innocent and weak. This label is also putting strong connotations on a colour, resulting in judgement of people who like pink. 

The way these ladies are represented in Big Brother and other reality TV shows has changed over time. Females used to be presented as passive and have small roles, often just there to be an object of the man's desire. Nowadays girls are often the main character, and the story is often told from their point of view.

 negative portrayal of females in the media can also affect female viewers. This could be in the form of a female feeling bad about herself because she doesn't look like the people in the media and trying to change herself to live up to those impossible standards. This could include the girl obsessing over her weight, the make-up and skincare products she uses, the people she hangs out with, and the boys she dates, just to ensure she is fitting with what she sees in the media

In today’s society the media, television and especially across the three media platforms females are represented and reinforce mainstream ideologies contemporary in the western culture of patriarchy, Roles of women have changed from the past 20 years as women’s were typically seen less often than men, as men dominated the media and women were more in sexual roles

Society in the over these years has changed over the number of years, for example the structured role of the females over the years have changed and also stayed similar in today’s society in many diverse ways. In the first ever part of Big brother opening shows the distance the males and females had between each other at the start, showing them respect and allowing them to have their personal space.

Society in the 50's and 70's

1950's reaffirmed male dominance and female subservience, which women's roles were, confined to sex role stereotypes of pretty. Male dominance in movies reinforced males 1920's This period bought in change in the social reform

The representations of women in the 70’s are that the mother is seen as being preoccupied with preparing family meals and cleaning the home, also looks natural and not fussed about material things but at the same time seen as a sexual desire in the era to the male gaze. An American family does not promote in any way women being over sexualised but are shown as good women who stand by their families. Compared to Geordie shore the representation is different as the women are constantly seen as trophy women that are all single who are all about being semi naked and finding romance. It seems over the years that the representation of being a housewife who stays at home to look after their families has disappeared as female representation are more degraded year by year .

Gunter 1986 argues that televisions sex stereotyping occurs in relation to various roles in which men and women are portrayed which have a connection with the personality attributes they typically display. He divides stereotyping into sex role stereotyping and sex trait stereotyping.
Whereas, according to McNeil, about 75% of men are depicted as employed whereas less than 50% of women of the celebrities of the films. Theorist such as Banner during the 40's and 50's women stayed at home with the family while men in most cases were the wage earners. This stereotypical image was also presented by the media, limited to family role