Essay plan

Essay Plan

Title: Representations in Reality TV

Brief overview of my two texts:

• The Real Housewives of Atlanta - Reality TV show about a group of women all based in Atlanta. 
• Love and Hip Hop -Reality TV show on women who are either trying to get into the music industry or are already in it.
• Explain overview of brief findings - Why black women are represented in a negative way?     - Why these black women allow themselves to be                                                                  represented in this particular way?                                                                                           - Why do the producers allow this type of representation?

 Love and Hip Hop

• Forms and conventions -
• Audiences- African Americans, ranging from 18-49 years old
• Institutions -VH1 (American cable television)
• Representations - Aggressive, single mothers, promiscuous, hip hop 
• Values, Ideologies and Theorists - Bell Hooks 'Black women are objectified and sexualised in Hip Hop reflecting the colonialist view of black women' -Tricia Rose- 'Hip Hop gives black female rappers a voice introducing female empowerment'

The Real Housewives of Atlanta

• Explain similarities to above but also the differences of the cast members involved. 

• Conclusion 

-Overall judgement of why the the women are represented in this way. (My findings)

-My personal opinions on why they are represented in this way?