Theorists

Todorov - 'All narrative have the disruption of equilibrium and is eventually restored'

Theories/Theorists - Glossary

Laura Mulvey - 'Male Gaze/female gaze': Women see themselves through the eyes of men and are not sexualised by men. Audiences are force to view women from the point of view of a heterosexual male or a male is sexualised in fragrance adverts for a women demographic. 

Bell Hooks - 'Feminism is for everybody': The colour codes: lighter skinned women are considered more desirable and fit better into the western ideology of beauty. Black women are objectified and sexualised in hip-hop reflecting the colonialist view of black women.

Stuart Hall – 'Dominant, Oppositional and Negotiated Readings of Representation': Stuart Hall’s theory is also useful in understanding how some representations reflect the dominant culture e.g. patriarchy. However, some representations can be negotiated or even misunderstood (oppositional)

Steve Neale – 'Genre are instances of Repetition and Difference': Genre is familiar to audiences through the repetition of conventions like a physically strong, dynamic, violent, male hero in Action Adventure Video Games but is challenged by a female lead character in Tomb Raider and Beyond. 

Levi-Strauss - 'Binary Oppositions': In terms of villain-hero, male-female, killer-victim. 

Deborah Knight - 'Thrill comes from the prolonging of the inevitable'

Claude Levi-Strauss - 'Conflict is based around the binary opposites and are the central climax of a narrative structure.'

Judith Butler – 'Queer Theory': Gender is what you do, not who you are; identities are not fixed and they cannot be labelled.