The Portrayal of Women in the Media
Redbook magazine are devoted to selling products ranging from shoes to shampoo. The entire magazine only has only 210 pages. Approximately 6-8 min of every half hour television show is produced by ad agencies. Americans are bombarded with advertisements. We see them everyday in many different forms and through different mediums. Advertisers study America’s population through a systematic breakdown and analysis of our likes and dislikes in relation to our differences. These differences include gender, sexual orientation, economic status, location, race, ethnicity, and more. Advertisers have substantial knowledge of what appeals to each of these demographics and how these demographics will respond to different stimuli (i.e. visual audio, ect.) as well as where the advertising will be most effective. In other words, advertisers find it more beneficial to target specific audiences (Furnham; Mak, 1999).
One of the central audiences that advertisers focus their attention on is women. Being such a large part of society, American women are targeted along with every other group. Ads placed where women are most likely to see them are custom tailored for women. Studies give ad agencies an accurate idea of what it is that they need to show women in order to get them to buy their product and their brand. If these ads can improve a woman’s mood her increased euphoria will subliminally be linked with the stimulus (the ad). This will, in turn, have a positive effect on their attitudes toward the product and brand (Simpson; Horton, 1996). There are several strategies that are popular in both television and magazines, many of which involve images of men. Advertisers use images of men by themselves or in a variety of positions and settings to appeal to women. By far, the most common image of men in advertising is of that of the “young, white, able-bodied, and staunchly heterosexual” man (Jackson, 1994). The vast amount companies spend to advertise is proof in itself; these ads sell products. It should be noted that all television commercials analyzed in this paper come from the Lifetime network between 1pm and 3pm. The slogan of this network is “Lifetime: Television for Women”.
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The death of Johnny is a noble death. He dies from saving children and also Ponyboy. His death means something. Near the end of the story, he is still looking out for Ponyboy, telling him to “‘stay gold’”(148) and writing him the letter. Ponyboy says “Johnny was right. He died gallantly” (154). He dies still thinking of other people, he dies a hero. Conversely, Dally dies selfishly and only looking out for himself. He dies under the street lamp, happy with how things turn out, while Johnny dies in a bed, scared and wishing he had done more. Ponyboy says ¨Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate¨ (154). He does not die peacefully like Johnny, he dies a harsh death, just because he breaks for not being a hero like Johnny. Ponyboy and the rest of the gang all know he would someday die like this. Ponyboy went on to saying ¨two friends of mine had died that night, one a hero, the other a hoodlum¨ (154). Their death shows a clear difference between Johnny and
In residential schools, “there [are] tons of priests… matrons and helpers that ‘helped’ themselves to little kids” (Robinson 254-5) like Josh. From this experience, Josh begins to commit sexual offenses; abusing characters, Karaoke – an incident discovered through “an old photograph and a folded-up card” which is found with “Josh’s head… pasted over a priest’s head [,] and Karaoke’s… pasted over a little boy’s” (Robinson 365) – and Pooch. The photograph is a visual representation of the shift in positions of Josh, as he engrosses the role of the priest as a sexual offender, and Karaoke takes the place of Josh: the victim. As McKegney puts forth, the repetition of past abuse is a “cyclical extension of violence seemingly initiated through residential school abuse” (12).
In Hinton’s novel Johnny’s death impacts Dally heavily. He virtually becomes a ticking time bomb. Pony describes Johnny as the only thing Dally loved and regarded. His reaction to cope with his grief was to commit suicide. Winston pointed an unloaded gun at the police after robbing a convenience store. His action was responded to with fired shots that give him imminent death. After the incident, seeing Dally lain on the hard pavement, Pony states: “And now he was a dead juvenile delinquent and there wouldn’t be any editorials in his favor. Dally didn’t die a hero”(154). Pony communicates how there wouldn’t be any editorials in the newspaper articulating his heroism, this means that in the eyes of the public Dally Winston died a delinquent. Conversely, Johnny Cade dies a commemorated hero for his gallantry at the church in Windrixville. While in Windrixville Johnny suffers severe burns from a fire that cause him to lose his life. To show he is proud of Johnny before his death Dally says: “‘They’re still writing editorials in the paper. For being a hero and all’”(156). After hearing Dally’s commendation and briefly speaking to Ponyboy, Johnny peacefully dies. He was praised for his bold and courageous actions regarding him risking his life to save some children from a church fire. The headline on the newspaper: “Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes” is also evidence of
For example Dally always hands him a cigarette but not the rest of the greasers. Dally would always help Johnny out no matter what. Especially when Johnny shot Bob, Dally helped Ponyboy and him but only because Johnny was there. Also Dally visits Johnny in the hospital.“ Oh dammit Johnny, don’t die please don’t die…” (149) Dally cares too much for Johnny and he does not want him to die. He is the only thing Dally cared about, he is like a brother to him. Johnny went to Dally to confront him when Johnny killed Bob. Johnny trusts Dally. Dally is one of the only people Johnny has left that feels like family. Johnny wrote to Dally, “ Tell Dally it’s worth it” (178) Johnny writes a letter to Ponyboy before he dies, and writes to Ponyboy and tells him to tell Dally. Johnny wants to let Dally know in his letter that it is worth it, he mentions that for Dally because he cares for him. Clearly, Dally cares too much for Johnny as Johnny does for Dally, so it shows that they care deeply for each
According to Steve Craig in Signs of Life in the USA, the economic structure of the television industry has a direct effect on the placement and content of all television programs and commercials. Craig is a professor in the department of radio, television, and film at the University of North Texas, Craig has written widely on television, radio history, and gender and media. His most recent book is Out of the Dark: A History of Radio and Rural America (2009). Craig talks about the analysis of four different television commercial, showing how advertisers carefully craft their ads to appeal, respectively, to male and female consumers. The gendered patterns in advertising that Craig outlines in his essay still exist today, in commercials of how a men and women are portrayed.
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