Representation of the disabled

1. What dramas can you think of that have disabled people in them?
2. Game of thrones, 
3. What do you think of when you think of disability?
4. A physical or mental limitation

Key statistics for the disabled

·       % of the population

number of disabled young people

•There are 770,00 disabled children under the age of 16 in the UK. That equates to 1 child in 20.

·       

% disabled in employment? 

•Nearly one in five people of working age (7 million, or 18.6%) in Great Britain have a disability.

The Medical Model: Shakespeare (1999)

•disabled people's inability to interact in normal daily life is a direct result of their physical and/ or mental impairment.

•e.g. Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carole” "crippled" child of Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, is defined by his disability and will only survive through medical intervention.

1. Jaws

2. Le 

3. De silva 

4. Blowfelt

5.

Task 2

•Why is this clip funny?

Because of the element of slapstick comedy when the disabled girl is hit with a frisbee and the confrontation that came as a result of it.

•How is the disabled girl represented?

She is represented with the stereotypical trait of being laughable

•Are we meant to be laughing at the disabled person?

Most probably due to the comedic sounds the actor made after being hit with the frisbee but not exclusively that as there were also comedic elements in the dialogue 

•Are they the ‘butt’ of the joke?

•How do you think disabled people respond to this?

•In what way does the representation comply with Shakespeares  STEREOTYPE!

The portrayal of the disabled girl as laughable, unable to function and 

•Are we as society being cultivated to think that we should pity disability?

•Why is this clip funny?

•How is Warwick Davis represented?

Warwick is represented as sharp and confident despite his disability which is a non stereotypical representation of the disabled.

•Are we meant to be laughing at the disabled person?

Not necessarily but rather the circumstance in which he has found himself

•Are they the ‘butt’ of the joke?

•How many of Paul Hunt’s (1991) stereotypes does this clip comply with?  

•In what way does the representation comply with Shakespeares  STEREOTYPE!

•Are we as society being cultivated to think that we should pity disability? 

Regional identity

Regional identity is the notion that part of a person's identity is rooted not only in the country but the part of the region they live in

UK identities
Essex
Scouse/Liverpool
Brum/Birmingham


setting 
accents 
dialogue 
props 
make up
class of characters
costumes 


TV DRAMAS WITH REGIONAL IDENTITY
Waterloo road (Liverpool)
Top Boy (London)
Young ones (Bristol)
Shameless (Manchester)

1st extract (Shameless Liverpool)
Alcoholism
Accent
Low income housing
Foul language

Essex
unintelligent
frequent use of the word 'babes'
limited vocabulary
difficulty pronouncing large words
superficial
narcissistic
Well off

Made in chelsea
Holiday lifestyle
Formal dress
Promiscuity











Extract 3 The office (somerset)
Yorkshire/Devon
Serious
Awkward mannerisms
Slow

South England
Ironically with the south of England being the Capital, the region with the most positive  image is the south of England , being credited for being the region of culture, modernism, fashion

Primary research

Definitions:

Box office:a measure of how popular and financially successful a film or actor is:
Synopsis:a brief summary or general survey of something
Distributor: an agent who supplies goods to retailers.

Transformer the age of extinction (2014)

Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Ehren Kruger

Actors: 
Mark Wahlberg 
Bingbing Li 
Stanley Tucci 
Nicola Peltz 


In my opinion, the presence of cinema icon Mark Wahlberg had a great contribution to the success of transformers due to the large following and storied career he has had in the film and music industries. Film directors often cast certain celebrities because of the fame they have which leads to higher box office numbers. 

Barthes theory

Task one

The Hermeneutic Code (HER) The Hermeneutic Code refers to any element of the story that is not fully explained and hence becomes a mystery to the reader. The full truth is often avoided, for example in: Snares: deliberately avoiding the truth. Equivocations: partial or incomplete answers. Jammings: openly acknowledge that there is no answer to a problem. The purpose of the author in this is typically to keep the audience guessing, arresting the enigma, until the final scenes when all is revealed and all loose ends are tied off and closure is achieved. The Proairetic Code (ACT) The Proairetic Code also builds tension, referring to any other action or event that indicates something else is going to happen, and which hence gets the reader guessing as to what will happen next. The Hermeneutic and Proairetic Codes work as a pair to develop the story's tensions and keep the reader interested. Barthes described them as: "...dependent on ... two sequential codes: the revelation of truth and the coordination of the actions represented: there is the same constraint in the gradual order of melody and in the equally gradual order of the narrative sequence." The Semantic Code (SEM) This code refers to connotation within the story that gives additional meaning over the basic denotative meaning of the word. It is by the use of extended meaning that can be applied to words that authors can paint rich pictures with relatively limited text and the way they do this is a common indication of their writing skills. The Symbolic Code (SYM) This is very similar to the Semantic Code, but acts at a wider level, organizing semantic meanings into broader and deeper sets of meaning. This is typically done in the use of antithesis, where new meaning arises out of opposing and conflict ideas. The Cultural Code (REF) This code refers to anything that is founded on some kind of canonical works that cannot be challenged and is assumed to be a foundation for truth. Typically this involves either science or religion, although other canons such as magical truths may be used in fantasy stories. The Gnomic Code is a cultural code that particularly refers to sayings, proverbs, cliches and other common meaning-giving word sets.