KeY WoRdS

Feminism -
Political movement to advance the status of women by challenging values, social constructions and socioeconomic practices which disadvantage women and favour men.

This is a word that will definitely be used in my study as my study is all about the representation of women in sex and the city and I will be looking at many feminist reviews of the film and look at how the representation of women in all films have changed since feminism occurred.

Laura Mulvey –

Feminist academic and media and film critic ,responsible for developing theories of the male gaze in her 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’

I’ll be including laura mulvey in my study as I will need to discuss her theory on the male gaze and also discuss whether or not there is such thing as a female gaze in sex and the city.

Representation –

The process whereby the media construct versions of people, places, and events in images, words or sound for transmission through media texts to an audience.

Representation is obviously a very key word for my study as my study is all about the way in which women have been represented in sex and the city

Gender –

Physiological and cultural aspects of behaviour associated with masculinity or femininity, acquired through socialisation, n accordance with the expectations of a particular society.

Aswell as discussing the representation of women in my film I will also be discussing the representation of men, so I will basically be discussing representation of gender roles etc.

Radical Feminism –

a feminist perspective that sees men as the enemy who have used patriarchy and the traditional family structure to suppress all women, regardless of class culture of ethnicity.

I will try and use this in my study and will think about whether this has any connection with the narrative of the film and whether or not radical feminists would agree with the representation of the women in sex and the city.

New Ladism –

Term applied to the male backlash against feminism and girl power, as exemplified by the values represented in magazines such as loaded,FHM and maxim.

I will have a look at whether there actually a new ladism approach in sex and the city, ill analyse whether the value of feminism and girl power are being fought against.

New Man –

A term used to describe a new type of masculinity identified and developed by advertising media in the 1980’s in line with lifestyle marketing strategies. The new man is seen to be more caring, happy and emotional.

I’ll discuss whether not the men in sex and the city are represented as the new man or the traditional man.

Institution – The organisation responsible for the production,marketing,distribution or regulation of media texts.

Knowing the institution that produced and distributed my film is very important as I will then be able to link that to the economical factor of the wider context.