How does Fox Studio's "24" engage in issues of gender representation and gender stereotyping?
In order to raise a discussion in regards to gender representation within television I have decided to investigate Fox studio's action-drama "24" as I believe it to be an excellent text, that engages in contemporary issues of representation in today's television industry. "24" will be a good basis for me to perform an inquiry into these issues as it conforms to some previous socially accepted representation of gender, whilst it also strives to re-create, redefine and challenge many others.
There are many ways that representation can be optimised and defined, but here are two that seem fitting in regards to the issues I hope to address in this essay.
Representation;
1: the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf.
2: a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something.
Jack Bauer (24) checks the new iPhone for CTU
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)
Trade paperback cover of Buffy: Season Eight Volum...To examine the founding principles of representation we need to look at the unbounded history of different cultures intimate creation of reality. A reality created by and based upon their cultures individually shared conventions for understanding and representing the world they physically see around them. This idea of expressing the meaning of images that inhabit the physical world around us lends itself to the notion that "perspective is an actual cultural convention" that has led to mankind creating a representation of matter since the beginning of time.
It is representations ever-progressing journey through historical and social periods that has allowed many different perceptives and ideologies of gender to be defined. For example Biologists would claim that the genetic make up of the sexes define their different characteristics. They justify this theory by expressing the fact that there are definite, if not minute, differences...