Key Terms for Representation

Polysemic - Lots of potential meanings

Hyperreality - enhanced reality, media representation of reality

Simulacrum - representation of reality

Scopophilia - love of looking, applied to male gaze (women as eye candy)

Masquerade - idea of being the focus of male gaze as empowering for women

Semiotics - system of meaning

Denotation - thing itself

Connotation - associations thing carries

Stereotype - where a social group is represented by a fixed set of characteristics