REPRESENTATION: Easter holiday tasks

GENDER
Here's a link to some examples that I analysed regarding gender representation in the media before I realised I had gone into too much detail. I used the video game Overwatch and the movie The Revenant as case studies.

ETHNICITY
The way that some members of the public have reacted to the relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who is mixed-race, has been incredibly racist. In this article by The Sun, Markle is compared to all of Harry's exes. They say that she is different from his past girlfriends due to her being a brunette and the others being blondes. Blonde hair and fair skin are features associated with beauty in the west so this is a thinly veiled comment about her ethnicity. It also features pictures of her drinking alcohol while reminding readers that many of Harry's exes did not drink and were vegan. Even the quote describing her parents is racially-tinged, calling attention to her African-American mother's dreadlocks and nose stud.
The Stanford rapist, Brock Turner, was given a controversially short prison sentence of only six months by the judge due to his age and 'clean record'. This article by The Independent focuses on Turner's release after serving only three months, which was half his sentence. Meanwhile, in the same state of Ohio, a 12 year-old black boy named Tamir Rice was shot on sight by police for playing with a toy gun. The Guardian reported that the white officer would receive no repercussions for the murder of the child.

EVENTS
Stonewall (2015) is a movie centered around the events of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. This film has been panned by critics for its historical inaccuracies and the whitewashing that many of the key players of the actual Stonewall riots received.
This front page of The Daily Telegraph reports on Barack Obama's election win for his second term as president of the United States. The pictures chosen represent Obama in a relatable and non-threatening light. In contrast to this, the covers of these newspapers published soon after Donald Trump's presidential win are less than flattering, using caricatures of him and images of the Statue of Liberty crying to represent his win instead of pictures of the man himself.

NATIONAL/REGIONAL IDENTITIES
This clip from the broadcast of the Royal Wedding in 2011 could be used as an example for national identity since it encourages the stereotype that the British are very formal and enjoy a lot of pomp and circumstance. Kate's dress is described in great detail while the public are waving flags behind her, mostly the United Kingdom flag. The iconography of the black Rolls Royce is also indicative of the British monarchy.
Episode 8, season 30 of Saturday Night Live has a sketch entitled Italian Stereotypes where an FBI agent is preparing to infiltrate a group of Italian-American gangsters to secure information on a murder. The agent tries to seem Italian-American by exhibiting many Italian-American stereotypes that have been popularised in film and television, such as the constant use of the phrase 'Forgeddaboutit!' and mentioning his childhood with the 'Mario brothers' in Little Italy, New York. The stereotypes are further parodied by having Robert de Niro, an actor known for playing Italian-American gangsters, as the leader of this crime syndicate.