ANALYSING REPRESENTATIONS of HOMOSEXUALITY DISABILITY:

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ANALYSING REPRESENTATIONS of HOMOSEXUALITY
DISABILITY

• some starting points

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CHARACTER BASICS

• Start by listing the main gay and straight/
  disabled characters. Do they provide a range of
  ideas about homosexuality/ disability or do they
  all suggest similar qualities and values?

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ANY POLARISATIONS?

• Are the representations of homosexuality/
  disability polarised? Does the text suggest that
  gay and straight/ disabled characters are very
  different? Opposites even?

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STEREOTYPES?

• Does the text contain stereotyped characters? If
  so, what ideas does the stereotype communicate?
  How are the audience positioned ironically, to
  laugh at the stereotype? To laugh at the group
  which is being stereotyped?

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TARGET AUDIENCE?

• What is the relationship between the target
  audience and representations of homosexuality/
  disability constructed?

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IDEAS

• List all the ideas which are associated with the
  representation of homosexuals/ disabled within
  the text.

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INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS

• Consider how the institutional context of the
  text channel ethos, scheduling time, production
  company values relates to the representations
  created.