Representation and Stereotypes

Gender:

This front cover from the Q magazine supports the theorist Laura Mulvey and her idea of the male gaze. This suggested that women are seen and used as erotic objects of desire, which attract a lot of attention from the male audience.This tactic is used by many media producers to increase their sales and therefore the profit they gain. Its seen within this magazine were Madonna is in small revealing clothing that shows of her bodily features, making males interested by her being sexually attractive.

As for my magazine I will not use features that supports Mulvey's theory. The reasoning behind this is due to the fact that my audience is evenly split so therefor I would not want it to appeal to the majority of males.

Race:

Malik said that Black and Asians are stereotypically seen as 'Other' and if they are not White they are not in the Norm. This front cover further adds to the stereotype of Black males with the big shiny jewellery and a fighting pose. Although their is a Black person on this magazine it actually converts from typical conventions were we normally see a white person on the front of a pop magazine. Due to this convention my magazine will use a white person on the front cover. However I might include some Black/ Asian people to still be fair whilst staying with conventions.

                 

Youth:

Here we see Ariana Grande who is a young artist on the front cover on a popular magazine company Billboard. Bill Osgerby links to this image due to the fact he had a theorist on Youth. He said that young people haven't changed much over 100 years and you will not have to search that much to find a bad representation of them. This converts from the theory and the stereotypical teenager, she is in a bright colourful and adventurous in the way that she dresses. As for the media they would see her to be dressed in 'Rough' clothing with trainers. However although this links with the media she is still famous and being seen as an idol by many. Due to my audience having a wide age range, I will more than likely have a teenager within my magazine.

Sexuality:

As shown by this front cover, we can see the bisexual artist lady gaga. However the way she is dressed shows that the theorist Andy Medhurst was correct in his theory. It stated that in the real world we can not see sexuality and we can only tell the sexuality of a person if they were to tell you. Lady Gaga proves this by dressing in a more feminine top and bright pink hair, this make the viewer not able to tell her sexuality without knowing it first. Within my magazine I will Include any gender or sexuality and allow them to dress how they would like and not how the media see them.

National/Regional Identity

Theorist Andrew Higson said "Identity is generally understood to be the shared identity of naturalised inhabitants of a particular political geographic space". By this I can see that its not a British music magazine due to the American flag. Therefor I can see that this magazine would more than likely be related to an American style music magazine. For my magazine I am going to uses National/ Regional identity but I will not emphasise it to the same degree as this magazine. I believe the way the British style will come across will be from the attire of the subject in the cover etc.