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Butlers Gender Perfomativity

Gender is a contrast based of how people act, not their genitals

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David Gauntlett’s Identity Theory

Everyone is an individual, people tend to exist within larger groups who are similar to them- the media do not create identities, but just reflect them

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Jenkins Fandom Theory

Fans play a key role in media and use textual poaching to create their own meanings

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Zoomens Feminism theory

Ideas about gender change based on historical and social context and the idea that women are objectified in the media

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Gilroy’s postcolonialist theory

Ethnic minorities are shown as dehumanised, marginalised and ‘other’

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Male Gaze Theory

Media products are created through the eyes of men

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Audience response theory

Preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading and audiences are active, not passive

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Barthes’ enigma code theory

A text portrays a mystery to draw an audience in through hegonomanic code (the story is not fully explained?

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