Language: close-textual analysis
Work through the following tasks to complete your close-textual analysis of the Oh Comely CSP pages:
Front cover
1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience?
type face is"oh comely" and the font suggests that the magazine is less conventional.
2) The words under the title introduce the content and topics addressed. What do these suggest about the potential audience of Oh Comely?
This suggest that oh comely has music, fashion and movies everything included in the whole magazine.
3) How do the cover lines use narrative to create enigma? What do the cover lines suggest about the magazine's content and audience?
The cover lines enigma codes as the cover line doesn't give any other details in the cover line which makes the potential dial readers to read it.
4) Write an analysis of the central image.
The us elf central image is women who has minimum makeup and is wearing normal clothes and is not being objectified.
5) What representation of gender can be found on this front cover?
This is representation of gender fluidity and how genders are changing over time.
Feature: Speaking Out
1) What does the headline and standfirst suggest about Oh Comely's feminist perspective?
The headlines suggest there is more for women that people need to find out about how they live another lifestyle.
2) What do the interviewees in this feature suggest about the values and ideologies that underpin this magazine?
The interviewes are all from different ethcnity and background which shows that the magazine can make all females to relate to it.
3) How conventional is the page design in this feature? Why?
The magazine is very unconventional as they are full of text and don't have any images which suggests how simple the magazine is.
5) How does the photography offer a fresh or unusual perspective on women?
The photography is all natural and real and has no photoshopped use on it which shows that women can live without makeup and how they look good without it.
Feature: More than gender
1) How does this feature offer a fresh perspective on gender and identity?
The feature offers a fresh perspective on gender and identity as they show gender fluidity form their front cover by showing a women who is not being objectified.
2) What is the significance of the writer and photographer? How does this fit with the Oh Comelybrand?
it is one by the sea person which shows how creative and unique they are.
3) What style of photography is used in this feature?
They have used a photo into a phot which shows they are trine create it like a memory.
4) What representations of the transgender lifestyle can be found in this feature?
it shows how difficult its for someone to open up and how many challenge they have to through to overcome it.
5) Why is the biographical information at the end of the article significant? (Clue: the writer is also an editor of a niche, creative magazine called Entitle).
This is important to show which people are interested in the magazine.
Representation and identity
Work through the following questions on representation and Oh Comely:
1) How do representations in Oh Comely challenge stereotypes?
They challenge stereotypes by showing a women in a normal way as normally they show a women to be objectified.
2) What representations of race, ethnicity and nationality can be found in the 'Speaking Out' feature?
They is a wide range of audience including black, white and brown people.
3) What representation of women and femininity can be found in Oh Comely?
The representation of women is shown in a positive way by showing how women can look good without makeup and they don't need to objectified as sex toys all the time.
4) Why might Oh Comely deliberately under-represent men? (The absence of men in the magazine appears to be a largely deliberate move by the editors).
This is because they don't have men anywhere I their magazine.
5) Does Oh Comely fit into the possible fourth wave of feminism? Or is it evidence of post-feminism - that feminism is no longer needed?
Yes it does because they are showing gender fluidity and how women are living indpenedtely and don't need to rely on men. for anything.
This is because it doesn't show the two opposite gender.
7) Judith Butler argues gender is a performance. How does Oh Comely challenge traditional gender roles? You should refer to both the cover and the selected CSP features.
This magazine doesn't reflect that because they have shown the women to be independent and how they can live their own life there way and that tarditional. gender roles are of women to be housewife and being objectified but this magazine doesn't;t show that.
8) Angela McRobbie explored the empowering nature of women's lifestyle magazines in the 1990s. Oh Comely seeks female empowerment in a different way. What differences can you find between Oh Comely and more traditional women's lifestyle magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Glamour?
oh comely is showing gender fluidity and how women live independtly and normal people but glamour is more showing the traditional view of women by showing celebrities and famous people .
9) David Gauntlett argues that identity is becoming more fluid, media representations change over time and that there are generational differences. Does Oh Comely support this viewpoint?
yes this is because if this magazine was created before 2000 than there was gonna be big scandal about it as the olde genedretayion will see it in a different way but the younger generation. is more open minded and respects. everyone.
10) It has been argued that Oh Comely is a far more open text (Stuart Hall - encoding and decoding/reception theory) with more room for negotiation in interpretation. Do you agree with this view? Why?
Yes this is because. the other magazine use picture.cover lines Andes everythibng else and oh comley Is more simple and realist in the way they show it.
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