AS Media, WJEC, Representation, Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Regional/national, immigration

2. Gender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V
Bku6tXLDo4
• Male = Dominant – tries to put his foot down
• Female caring/nurturing

3. Gender roles – employment
25 mins
Reinforces
patriarchal/domina
nt ideologies?

4. 32 minutes in
• Gender again
• 1:06:00 in

5. Gender…
• How Mr Brown arranges his stationary…
• The strange objects Mrs Brown finds in her
handbag
• Mrs Bird has a hoover for every occasion

6. Gender – countertype?

7. Male gaze?

8. Sexuality…LGBT? 55 mins
• Paddington: “Mr Brown dressed up as a lady”
• Joe: “In a dress…?”
• Mr Brown: “No! It was more of a house coat.
It was quite liberating actually.”

9. With reference to your own detailed
examples, explore the representation
of gender in the
media today.

10. Age
• Younger:

11. Age
• Teenagers – Judy: “So embarrassing”

12. Age
• Middle Age:

13. Old age

14. Old age

15. With reference to your own detailed
examples, explore the representation
of age in the
media today.

16. Ethnicity – Deepest Darkest Peru
• Alvarado (1987) – Exotic (expedition)

17. Ethnicity – Deepest Darkest Peru
• Alvarado – Exotic

18. Ethnicity – Deepest Darkest Peru
• Alvarado – Dangerous.
“Stranger Danger… Keep your eyes down.
There’s a strange looking bear over there.”

19. Ethnicity – unaware of ways things are
done
• Alvarado – Humorous

20. Ethnicity – Homeless/Orphaned
• Alvarado – Pitied

21. Ethnicity
• Mr Gruber = Humorous. Eastern European –
quirky/odd

22. With reference to your own detailed
examples, explore the representation
of ethnicity in the
media today.

23. Regional/National Identity

24. National Identity

25. Multi-culturalism

26. Paddington offers a shameless
celebration of Britishness:
Matt Lucas’ cabbie pokes a jibe at extortionate drivers;
Paddington interprets literally the officious rules of the Tube Station in
hilarious fashion;
the Geographer’s Guild flashbacks parody the well-spoken, outdated
colonials to surprisingly acerbic effect.
Paddington recognises London and, more widely Britain’s inadequacies
while simultaneously celebrating its rich cultural heritage in the
magnificent backdrops of London architecture, in the enduring intrigue
of institutions like the Natural History Museum, in the distinctly English
wit and pompous pretence of the bumbling Mr. Brown.
It also clearly celebrates multicultural London, through the calypso
soundtrack. King states "It adds to the magic of our London that
there's always a band playing the song that happens to reflect your
feelings," says King.

27. Social Class
I travelled light, carrying only the absolute
essentials… maps, rations, modest timepiece
and travel piano.

28. Social Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWGB-
0yUso

29. Social Class
• Hippie rockers to middle-class bores

30. Millicent (Upper Class)
Spoilt rich kid – whose father’s membership to
the prestigious Geographer’s Guild was
renounced. Felt working class life was a
hardship and that she deserved what was
rightfully hers – recognition, fame and fortune.

31. Mr Curry (Lower/Working Class)
• Cockney-accent (sort-of), nosy neighbour.
Self-interested, living in late mum’s house.
Xenophobic?
• “I have some meat paste sandwiches and
pickles… they went off on Tuesday, bust you’re
usually alright for a week.

32. With reference to your own detailed
examples, explore the representation
of Regional/National identity in the
media today.

33. Immigration
• 7.35 – 10.55

34. Immigration
Paddington’s status as an illegal immigrant is quickly
established when he responds to the Browns’
questions about where he has come from.
The use of the nominalisation ‘stowaway’ carries
connotations of romantic adventure and thus is an
interesting choice from the range of possible
lexemes the film producers could have chosen, such
as immigrant or refugee.

35. Telegraph
“Here is the story of an illegal immigrant who
stows away on a ship and pitches up in London
brazenly expecting British hospitality and
asylum. His initially unconvincing cover story is
that a visiting British explorer from the
Geographical Society taught his uncle and aunt
in Peru to speak English… Many years later, after
claiming to have been made homeless in an
earthquake (a likely story), the aunt sends the
orphaned bear to take up the (now dead)
explorer's offer of hospitality.”

36. Telegraph
“I'm sure that UKIP will respond that while this is
all very well, it comes down to a question of
numbers. One well-spoken and polite bear
turning up is fine. What if 260,000 turn up every
year? It is a fair question. Within a decade we
would have to build a city two and a half times
the size of Birmingham simply to house all the
Peruvian Bears. Could Britain's marmalade
industry cope with the demand? Probably not.”

37. With reference to your own detailed
examples, explore the representation
of a particular issue in the
media today.