Magazines: GQ - Language and Representation

 

1) What are the different magazine genres highlighted on page 2 and how do they link to our magazine CSPs?




2) Look at the section on GQ on page 2. How do they suggest that GQ targets its audience?





3) What does the factsheet say about GQ cover stars?





4) Pick out five of the key conventions of magazine front covers and explain what they communicate to an audience.





5) What is a magazine’s ‘house style’? How would you describe GQ’s house style? 





6) Write a summary of our annotations on the media language choices on the cover of GQ - e.g. colour scheme, typography, language, photographic codes etc. 





7) Identify three specific aspects/conventions/important points (e.g. cover lines, colour scheme, use of text, image etc.) from each page/feature of the CSP that you could refer to in a future exam. Explain why that particular aspect of the CSP is important - think about connotations, representations, audience pleasures, reception theory etc.

Front cover: Robert Pattinson image - Art & Fashion issue

Inside pages: Jonathan Bailey feature and fashion shoot






 

 
8) Apply narrative theories to GQ - Todorov's equilibrium, Propp's character types, Barthes' action or enigma codes, Levi-Strauss's binary opposition. How can we use narrative to understand the way the cover and features have been constructed?








9) Analyse the cover and inside pages of GQ. Does this offer an example of Steve Neale's genre theory concerning 'repetition and difference'?






10) How can Gauntlett's ideas on masculinity, gender and identity be applied to the GQ CSP pages we have analysed?





11) How could van Zoonen's work on feminist and gender theory be applied to GQ? Does the magazine challenge or reinforce these ideas?






12) Does bell hooks's work on 'corrosive masculinity' apply to GQ? 





13) How does the Jonathan Bailey feature represent masculinity and sexuality? 






14) Which GQ issue is discussed at the start of the article and what was notable about it? 






15) How did Will Welch view GQ when he took over as Editor-in-Chief and what did he want to offer readers? 






16) How has publisher Conde Nast responded to changes in the magazine industry and how did this impact GQ?






17) What did the GQ New Masculinity edition feature? 







18) What did journalist Liz Plank say about toxic masculinity?






19) How did Welch respond to suggestions GQ was responsible for toxic masculinity?






20) What does the article suggest masculinity involved at the start of the 20th century?






21) What social change occurred from the 1930s?






22) What is suggested about masculinity today?






23) Why does it suggest these changes are important? 

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