2. What is representation?
• Representation refers to the construction in
any medium of aspects of ‘reality’ such as
people, places, objects, events, cultural
identities and other abstract concepts. Such
representations may be in speech or writing as
well as still or moving pictures.
3. What represention theories are there?
• The male gaze is a representation theory, its
how men look at pictures of women and how
they analyse them etc.
• Reception theory
