Media Studies A-Level
Naturalisation in media representation
What Naturalisation in media representation means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Naturalisation in media representation
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How texts present gendered behaviour as obvious or inevitable, directing attention to when and where those conventions arose.
Topics that use Naturalisation in media representation
- Theories of gender performativity - Butler's ideas and theories on gender performativity (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Gender performativity
- Historical and cultural contingency of gender
- Stylisation and cultural convention
- Constructed versus naturalised gender
- Gender as constructed rather than essential
- Parody and hyperbolic repetition
- Repetition and citation of norms
- Repetition and the production of identity
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