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5 Cards in this Set
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Characters and Actors |
Ellen Ripley = Sigourney Weaver Private Vasquez = Jenette Goldstein |
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Branson & Stafford (2002) groups |
The burden of representation in which members of a larger group bear the responsibility of portraying certain traits to define their community. Private Vasquez is a woman in the military. The typical conventions of gender representation and stereotypes are already challenged in this one statement. |
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Branson & Stafford (2002) stereotypes |
"Stereotyping is a process of categorisation necessary to make sense of the world, and the flood of information and impressions we receive minute by minute." (P. 91) |
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Ripley subplot and character development |
Mother Motivation Male and female Compare scenes |
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Tasker (2002) gender social construct |
"The critcal suggestion that the hero is 'really just a man' a suggestion that... represents an attempt to secure logic of gendered binary in which the terms, 'female' and 'feminine' are locked together," whereas, they are not. Gender has been defined as typically used in reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones (dictionary.com) |
