Representation in media

Within the media, representation is concerned with the way that people, Ideas and events are presented to us. The media therefore needs to be viewed through a vehicle for beliefs, values and attitudes, which can either be reinforced or challenged by the audience. The media constructs meanings about the world in order for the audience to make sense of it.

In the film "Gone girl" the main actress- Amy Dunne is presented in an opposite way with most of female characters in movie. Amy Dunne is presented as a 'countertype'. Normally, the "murdered wife" in a story like this is nothing but an object. However, Gone girl is complete opposite. In the film, Amy has all the power, a type of female character that we rarely see in movies- a female psychopath. We've seen lots of women in movies who can be violent. But often those women are usually really masculine, often telling weaker character to stop being such 'girls' or 'pussies'. For example we can see from the movie 'Mad max' the main character 'imperator Furiosa' is a strong female leader that often shout at the weaker female characters. Amy, on the other hand, is opposite.

However, Amy represents a negative stereotype of women. In my opinion, this type of representation is not accurate and is hard to see in reality. Familiar representation keep reoccurring to break out the traditional stereotype of representation. This type of representation is mainly to maintain those views by a higher power.