Learning objective:
In Week 1 Classwork I will:
Explore the representation of disability in Media.
I will research texts dealing with the issue of disability and describe the different ways that disabled people have been represented in the media.
The Street. Hollyoaks.
You will research texts dealing with the issue of disability and comment on how they have been represented in the media. The Street. Hollyoaks.
- Key words:
- Representation.
- Stereotypes.
- cliché.
Disability tends to still be represented in terms of stereotypical characters.
For example:
· Physically Disabled / Disfigured people are often shown as outsiders, unable to do normal things.
· Mentally disabled people are often shown as strange, odd, childlike, outsiders.
Whereas
· Able Bodied / Minded people are often shown as “normal” and “ideal”.
· Able Bodied / Minded people are often shown as “normal” and “ideal”.
Characters with disabilities are often portrayed in TV Dramas as being outsiders, strange, unable to do everyday activities, immature, weaker than “able bodied, able minded” characters, less attractive etc.
Traditionally in films, villains were often given a disability or deformity to make them seem scarier or more evil. Although our association of disability with “evil” has since declined, society often still links disability to weakness and makes disabled characters objects to pity.
For example, almost every Bond film includes a disabled villain. Read this link.
Pirates in stories are a great advert for disabled people who are motivated; eye patches, hooks for hands and wooden legs to name a few obstacles they to overcome.
For example, almost every Bond film includes a disabled villain. Read this link.
Pirates in stories are a great advert for disabled people who are motivated; eye patches, hooks for hands and wooden legs to name a few obstacles they to overcome.
If you are asked to deal with disability when analysing a media text, you should be thinking about the following points when watching the clip:
- Can I identify who is able bodied / disabled in the clip?
- Are people with disabilities shown as having different interests, personalities, attitudes, behaviours from people who don’t have disabilities? If so, how?
- Is their disability represented as being important in their life?
- Are people without disabilities represented stereotypically as being normal / better / more powerful? If so, how?
- Are people with disabilities represented stereotypically as being abnormal /weak/ pathetic? If so, how?
- How do other characters in the clip treat the characters with disability?
- What is the message the clip is trying to portray about disability?
- How have visual and technical codes and conventions been used to portray the disability?
Tip: Don’t ignore the able bodied characters as they need to be analysed too in comparison.
Examples of disability in TV drama that you can analyse for practice:
Secret Diary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSAGvpM7W8
Touch Of Frost http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gl8jVX9WWM
The Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80K5P1qqQOI
Coming Down the Mountain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIcVhqcKukw&feature=related
Hollyoaks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9utEQTdts
Cast Offs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4Z0jfOExA
Task 1:
Write 200 words on how disabled characters have been portrayed in two of the clips above. Use the 8 points set out above.
A whole collection of film and tv clips that feature disability
Relevant links of interest
Homework Week 1: Analyse a short video clip of Eastenders and discuss how the issue of old age is represented.
Literacy focus: Use Media terminology to define gender stereotypes.
Numeracy: Produce a visual timeline showing representation of age on British TV.
Literacy focus: Use Media terminology to define gender stereotypes.
Numeracy: Produce a visual timeline showing representation of age on British TV.
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