Guardian 100...x

Guardian 100- is a list of 100 people of the most powerful people within the media industry. The people who are in the list are judged on three criterias:
- Their cultural
-Econonomical
-Political
Influence on the UK. The list is taken from all platforms of the media industry: broadasting, Publishing, Digital media, marketing and PR. Other sources that helps the panell create the list are, 'The Sunday Times Rich List'.

Panellists.

Kenton Allen, who is a BAFTA award-winning cheif executive of the company 'Big Talk', who have created films such as 'Hot Fuzz', 'Shaun of the Dead'. He bagan his career producing more than 200 live shows including, 'Tonight with Jonothan Ross'.

Mark Butcher- is the editor of digital media blog, he has written newspapers and magazines for 'The Guardian', 'Financial Times' and 'Daily Telegraph'.

Steve Busfield- is the head across the media and technology across the 'Guardian', 'Observer', 'Guardian.co.uk'. Before joining the Guardian, he was the showbiz editior for 'The Daily Mail'.

Mathew Horsman- is the founder and joint managing director of the media consultantcy 'Mediatique'. He was previously media editor at the 'Independant', and spent 10 years in financial journalism in the UK and US.

David Lammy- was Britain's youngest members of parliament when elected MP for Tottenham. He has since served as a minister in the Department of Health; the Department of Constitutional Affairs; minister for skills and as minister for culture in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.


Jane Martinson- who is the editior for 'Mediaguardian'. She recently wrote weekly business interviews for business papers. Before joining the Guardian, she worked at the Financial Times as investment correspondent and financial reporter.

Nicola Mendelsohn -Nicola Mendelsohn is chairman and partner at the creative agency Karamara.She has been named top UK business development director by Campaign magazine and one of the top 35 women under 35 by Management Today in 2005.

Jane Moore- She has been as national journalist for 24 years and writes a weekly column for 'The Sun', Also, a best selling novelist of 5 novelists. On broadcast, she has co-presented t.v shows such as, Loose women and ITV1's This Morning,

John Plunkett- Writes about radio and edits his dailty diary Media Monkey. He's previously worked for, 'The Sun' and 'Heat Magazine'.

Mathew Wright- is a day time t.v presenter of the channel 5 breakfast show 'The Wright Stuff''. A former showbiz journalist, and had his own column with the 'Daily Mirror'.

How many women are there in the top 100?
16 women.

Jane Tranter - Job: controller of fiction, BBC
Lesley Douglas - Job: controller, BBC Radio 2 and 6Music
Jana Bennett - Job: director of vision, BBC
Helen Boaden - Job: director, BBC news
Elisabeth Murdoch - Job: chairman and chief executive, Shine Group
Rebekah Wade - Job: editor, the Sun
Carolyn McCall - Job: chief executive, Guardian Media Group
Gail Rebuck - Job: chairman and chief executive, Random House UK
Dawn Airey - Job: chair and chief executive elect, Channel Five
Arianna Huffington - Job: founder, editor-in-chief, Huffington Post
Veronica Wadley - Job: editor, London Evening Standard
Jane Bruton - Job: editor, Grazia
Caroline Michel - Job: chief executive, PFD
Katie Price - Job: reality TV star, author
Eileen Gallagher - Job: chief executive, Shed Media
Emily Bell - Job: director of digital content, Guardian News & Media

flightplan- Panic room...x

Firstly, post feminists believe that women have overcome inequality and discrimination. This post-feminist view is particularly linked in with the representation of women in the movie ‘Flightplan’ and ‘Panic Room’. Significantly, both films have a female protagonist and also the same actress. The significance of the actress ‘Jodie Foster’ in both films is that she is known to play the role of a strong and independent women, who is fully capable to be the nurturer and the bread-winner at the same time. For example, ‘Panic Room- is a mother trying to protect her daughter’ Flight plan- a mother searching for her lost child’ & ‘Silence of the Lambs- FBI agent’- all roles which involve the characteristics of men including the influence and guidance of men. Firstly, the use of close-up shots represents the character as the protagonist/ hero. The representation given here is of a strong woman; as the use of close-up shots emphasising her facial expression indicate that she is someone of importance, and someone of high focus because of the use of close-up and extreme close-up shots. However, compared to the film panic room, the continuous use of high angle shots represents the protagonist as someone who is inferior thus, placing the audience in a God-like position; one of which she can be looked down upon. Interestingly, the reasons for the focused camera work is used to portray different emotions, within Flightplan the use of high angle shots and extreme/close-up shots are used to demonstrate her determination to find her daughter and defend her self. However, within Panic Room the use of high angle shots and close-up shots are used to demonstrate her fear and her need to escape. Overall, the representations of the protagonists in both films are similar but have subtle differences; within Panic Room, the post-feminist view of the protagonist is unclear; as the entire film she is on a mission to escape from the men trying to harm her and her daughter, and through her facial expressions; it can be argued it is one of fear, therefore, reinforcing women aren’t equal to men as in Panic Room. Secondly, the representations of Jodie Foster challenge the original Feminist view of women in society, and the idea whether it is a positive representation or not.The idea of 'positive representation' is problematic - these are not idealised women, rather women doing the best they can do in the circumstances. Note that she very rarely plays superwoman - one of the few times she does (Inside Man), she is a less sympathetic character. That's why I didn't put it as a 'positive' above - she is clearly succesful, and it has eroded her morals, but not totally as the film makes it clear as it progresses. Taxi Driver is even more problematical - she is tough and a survivor, but we don'w know enough about her to determine if she's just a brat or there are 'issues' that have caused her to leave.