Book Research

I have pulled out a book from my local library about media studies by Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon and it has a section on representations of women. This section of the book is essential to my study as it underlines the fact that woman are always seen as 'objects of the male-gaze. This book also talks about the fact that women are constently stereotyped as 'bimbos' in the media. This tern 'biimbo' is seems to have very denigrating connotations in todays postmordern society we are living in. This book also identifies to us the characteristics of a 'bimbo'. She must be blonde with flashy make-up,large breasts, a mini skirt and high heels. She is also meant to be promiscuous stupid and uneducated.

The section of the book carries on to talk about the fact that there are two types of women and that a female can only fit one catogary. There is the pure maternal modestMadonna-like woman and there the loose,sexual, amoral and sinful woman. Also, Sardar and Van Loon go on to talk about a womans dependancy on make up and cosmatics and artificial modifications.

This book links perfectly with my study as it shows how oppositte the character of Domino Harvey is from a typical woman. Keira Knightly in Domino chalenges all the stereotypes as she doesnot take care of how she looks and she is notin anyhow stupid or uneducated as she excels her job as a bounty hunter. I will use this book and other books i find as a guide to see how Keira Knightly and a 'typical' woman juxtipose to an extent.