Gender, ethnicity, age, issues and events — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Gender, ethnicity, age, issues and events
Representation
What you need to know
Representations of gender, including feminist approaches: how products construct femininity and masculinity, and how far they reinforce or challenge traditional gender roles.
Representations of ethnicity and of age, and how they have changed across set products from different decades.
Representations of issues and events, such as news stories and public health campaigns, and why they matter socially, culturally and politically.
How each representation is shaped by the time, society and culture in which the product was made.
Mulvey's idea of the male gaze, and Gilroy's idea of conviviality, where people of different ethnicities live together in shared communities: useful perspectives, though not ones the specification requires, and worth using only where they fit the product.
The set products for 2027 and 2028 exams are the Vogue and GQ covers; the Man with the Golden Gun and No Time to Die posters; the Guardian of 18 January 2022 and the Sun of 1 January 2021 (2027 exams only), then the Guardian of 6 May 2025 and the Sun of 22 March 2025 (2028 exams); the Quality Street and NHS 111 adverts; the Sun, Desert Island Discs, No Time to Die and Fortnite for industries and audiences; Trigger Point with The Sweeney, or Man Like Mobeen or Modern Family with Friends; and Lizzo or Taylor Swift, Stormzy or Justin Bieber, and Rio or Waterfalls. This Girl Can, The Archers and Luther were last set for 2026 exams, so past questions on them are practice only.
