Representation in media involves how people, ideas, and events are presented, as media cannot present reality directly. It constructs meanings about the world by changing and mediating what is shown. When analyzing media representations, questions consider what sense of the world is portrayed, if it is typical or deviant, who it speaks to, and what it represents and why audiences respond that way. Feminist theorist Laura Mulvey explored the "male gaze" concept where women are represented from a male sexual fantasy perspective in media, with viewers taking on a voyeuristic role that objectifies female characters as passive objects of desire to be looked at by active males.

1. REPRESENTATION:
Representation is concerned with the way people, ideas and events are presented
to us, the media will represent people places and situations and they rely on the audience
understanding these representations and accepting them. It is not possible for the media to
present things as they really are. The media constructs meanings about the world, they
change and mediate what is really there.
REPRESENTATION THEORISTS:
Richard dyer posed questions when analysing media representations in general
1. What sense of the world is it making?
2. What does it imply? Is it typical of the world or deviant?
3. Who is it speaking to? For whom? To whom?
4. What does it represent to us and why?
How do we respond to the representation
Laura Mulvey the male gaze is the representation of women the good life and sexual fantasy
from the males point of view. Laura is a feminist theorist she explores the idea of the gaze
which involves looking at other peoples bodies, especially erotic objects. The viewer is said to
be the voyeuristic process of objectification of female characters. The pleasure of looking as
been split up into active/male and passive/female. Males are traditionally known to treat
women as passive objects of desire where as females are there to be looked at.