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From: Sian Norris

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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:30 PM

Subject: Re: [bristol_feminist] Film Night promoting results of the Representations of Women in the Media action

HI all

 

Just to let you know that we're having a Reclaim the Night Planing meeting tomorrow 8th Jan, 7pm at Cafe Kino.

 

See you there!

 

Sian

2009/1/7 bristol_feminist <bristol_feminist@yahoo.co.uk>

Bristol Indymedia Film Night: Women & the Media -
Representation/Misrepresentation/No Representation?

Monday 26th January 2009 8pm
Cube Cinema, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Entry £2/£3 (but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds.)

It has become `normal' to see women objectified and scrutinised in the
media, from the daily press, lads' mags and women's weeklies, to
advertising campaigns, film and radio. By highlighting the ways in
which women are represented, misrepresented, and not represented in a
range of media, the `Representation of Women in the Media' campaign
questions and challenges what is so often taken for granted. The
campaign took place through Autumn 2008 across Bristol, and culminated
in an exhibition of work that included statistics on the
representation of women on television and in newspapers, video footage
of the representation of women on television and in magazines, a
playboy babygrow, and documentary photographs of feminist guerrilla
action.

Here we present the campaign and the work produced, with a view to
discussing `what next?'…

This event will exhibit the work that was produced as a result of this
campaign and will have an open discussion that questions why women are
represented in these ways, what can be done about it and does it
matter? does feminism have a place in the 21st century?

http://www.bristol.indymedia.org
http://www.bristolfawcett.org.uk/MediaRepresentation.html