effects of media imagery

May 25, 2012

Miss Representation

May 25, 2012 / Blog, Campaign Films, Home page

Charlotte.Gush / All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, All walks, all walks beyond the catwalk, Annabel Staff, body confidence, body image, caryn franklin, Charlotte Gush, Colleen Harris, Debra Bourne, diversity, effects of media imagery, Erin O'Connor, fashion, female representation in the media, film, House of Commons, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jo Swinson, Lee Jones, Lynne Featherstone MP, Malorie Blackman, Minister for Equality, Miss Representation, Parliament, portrayal of women in the media, susie orbach, YMCA /

Arriving at the House of Commons in force, Wednesday 1st February 2012 saw a brigade of well-informed and well-heeled women gather to view award-winning documentary Miss Representation and to debate the under-representation of women in positions of power. Guests at the All Walks screening of Miss Representation in the House of Commons photographer Annabel Staff Directed and [...]

February 7, 2012

Interview: Samantha Donnelly on her Exhibition ‘Contour States’

Feb 7, 2012 / Blog

Charlotte.Gush / art, Contour States, effects of media imagery, exhibition, Interview, portrayal of women in the media, Samantha Donnelly, The Cornerhouse Manchester /

Samantha Donnelly (centre) at the opening of her exhibition “Contour States” at The Cornerhouse, Manchester AW: The exhibition literature notes that your work is “concerned with the powerful effects of media imagery on the individual, and in particular with how the portrayal of women in the media shapes and defines them”. How do you think [...]