Correction on the advert presentation.
I could tell you what would be beneficial for your analysis,
This is the task that we did in class on gender analysis in advertising:
· Select online contemporary beauty/grooming advert (stills) to analyse.
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· Pay particular attention to gender. How is the advert constructed? who or what is in the ad? how are shots used or items or language put together to make meaning? what is assumed within the ad? what relates to gender in the advert? how is the reader interpellated?
· How could the ad be done differently?
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· Aim to use ideas from the lecture in your analysis or link to ideology, gender, and aim to use semiotics (denotation, connotation, ideology) or even the 'Magic system'.
· Share your analysis and an image of the selected advert on the Discussion Board.
You will significantly improve your essay if you discuss semiotics: denotation, connotation, ideology, interpellation, and the magic system.
you would need to analyse gender using these suggestions.
Make sure to pick any ad and analyse an aspect of it, Or quality tv if you don’t want to do advertising.
It needs to show the same as essay, the main points should be in both the ad and the essay.
You could (and should) definitely include interpellation and magic system, please add the this to the ad.
Correction on Essay:
You could (and should) definitely include interpellation and magic system. I didn’t see the ad but what you’re saying seems like you could discuss it.
And obviously semiotics, that was one of the most important things we discussed.
Discuss hegemonic masculinity which is the most common discourse on masculinity in media and cultural studies.
And obviously semiotics, that was one of the most important things we discussed