Representation of People in Popular Art Forms
Individual Response Paper 1
Weighting: 30%
Submission Deadline
Thursday CL06 – 24 February 2023 by 11:59 p.m.
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2023 (Friday) by 11:59 p.m.
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Choose ONE question only
1) Recall a cultural text/cultural artefact (e.g. music, MTV, TV drama, film, or
animation/cartoon/comics, etc.) that has prompted you to think about the images
of revolutionary “people” or reactionary “people”. Refer closely the images of
people to the learnt terms: media representation, heterogeneity, homogeneity,
collectivism, and individualism for analysis. Please discuss to what extent the
cultural text/artefact broadens (擴闊) or restricts (限制) your imagination of the
represented “people” Has the media created stereotypes or bias in your chosen
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