Update on Chick Flick research

I've been busy reading this interesting article by Suzanne Ferris and Mallory Young. They have written a book together regarding Chick Lit and they also have written quite a few articles on feminism.

Here is the link:

FindArticles - Chick flicks and chick culture
Post Script, Fall, 2007, by Suzanne Ferriss,
Mallory Young

It has some interesting points and explains a bit of history about chick flicks. I'm working my way through a printed copy and highlighting key points/taking a few notes.

They make a point of how one of the main ideas of chick flicks is to represent women enjoying getting desirable consumer goods (such as handbags, makeup, fancy jewelry etc).

I still need to read a few more reviews on chick flicks, because there are so many and some are aimed at women of different ages.

I think I want to open some sort of discussion forum in which girls can post there opinions on my research, maybe I'll open a blog or something.

edited title

i have changed my title

'How women are represented in American TV dramas partially Desperate housewives in comparison to Happy Days and British TV dramas such as footballers wives and how it is diverse with the class in British culture with such programmes as shameless, and how audiences are perceived by the reflection on women?'

Female advertising

At the moment, i am finding feamle websites such as OK Magazine etc to find out if there are any action/ crime/ gangster movies advertised. At the moment i have had no luck since the 007 movie quietened down. That was the only one i have seen advertised on female website so far. I am trying to think of more ways to do primary reasearch as i blieve this will be more usful for me.

questionnaire

i have just created a questionnaire asking questions asking things like age, gender, favorite films, favorite genre etc. This is to help me create a graph showing film preference patterns with males and females.
i intend to hand out around 50 questionnaires or more if possible to people 14 plus.
I will also use this data to compare it with my results from my other primary research task with the posters and technically, the data stats should be very similar.

primary/ secondary research

i am currentley getting a selection of male magazines such as zoo, nuts and fhm and looking for any films which are advertised in these magazines and looking at the genre of the film and the possible audience spread for them off the pearl and dean website. I am also doing the same for female magazines but on the internet sites rather than the actual magazine as i am allowed acess to these sites on college computers. After this i am going to pick a selection of crime/action/gangster film posters and get a number of people both male and females and get there opinions on them asking questions such as what do and dont you like about the poster, would you consider watching the film, do the actors/actresss apeal to you? etc.

Update

So far completed:
- Book research completed and annotated - 5 books in total
- Journal research completed and annotated - 1 article found
- Internet research completed, needs printing and annotating - 3 sites found
- Programmes to look at chosen - 5 programmes in total
- Cross-examined annotations to see any common ideologies that pop up.

To do:
- Letter to be drafted to headmistress at Ecclesfield Primary
- To then follow up any inquiries and organise a meeting
- To piece together an interview/survey for parents/teachers
- To actually gather physical sources to include in interview/focus group

initial ideas

film advertising:film posters:- how film posters differ depending on there target audience (possibly as specif genre)'or'film trailers:- How they are constructed to appeal to there target audience. (trailers of a specific genre)