12C Cover Work Tues July 10th P6 (for ROD) & 12A Lesson work Wed July 11th P6 (for VAN)

Find two music videos which REPRESENT women in very different ways. Answer the following questions on each music clip: 1. How is the representation made to seem 'true', 'commonsense' or 'natural'?   2. What is foregrounded and what is backgrounded? Are there any notable absences?   3. Whose representation is it? Whose interests does it reflect? How do you know?   4. At whom is this representation targeted? How do you know?   5. What does the representation mean to you?   6. With what alternative representations could it be compared? How does it differ?   7. Why is the concept of representation problematic?