Representation refers to how people, places, objects, events, and cultural identities are constructed in different mediums like speech, writing, pictures. There are different theories of representation including the male gaze theory about how men view pictures of women and reception theory which analyzes how representations are received.

1. What is representation?

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