We recommend you buy your own copy of Issue 35 of Oh Comely - the selected CSP issue. You can order this from the Oh Comely website here. Alternatively, selected pages of the magazine are currently available to view online through the website Issuu here.
Oh Comely Language and Representation: blog tasks
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?
The cursive writing at the top suggests this is a more of a non-traditional magazine as many magazines have very bold letters on the front cover.
2) The words under the title introduce the content and topics addressed. What do these suggest about the potential audience of Oh Comely?
The words under the title suggest that the target audience for this magazine is females.
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 suggests the magazine empowering females.
4) Write an analysis of the central image.
The central image the women in the centre is wearing very upper class, non-traditional costumes and the use of the earring with the coat suggests a very old-fashion theme.
5) What representation of gender can be found on this front cover?
There is very minimum makeup which is not a very conventional magazine that would be aimed at females.
Feature: Speaking Out
1) What does the headline and standfirst suggest about Oh Comely's feminist perspective?
The stand-first outlines the primary standards of the magazine - enabling ladies and urging them to accomplish extraordinary things/change their general surroundings.
2) What do the interviewees in this feature suggest about the values and ideologies that underpin this magazine?
The interviewees highlight ladies who might not really be met or celebrated in standard magazines.
3) How conventional is the page design in this feature? Why?
The majority of the content is focused and is limited by the white outskirt.
4) Pick out specific aspects of this feature that subvert the stereotypical representation of women in the media. Are they different to what we may find in conventional women's lifestyle magazines such as Glamour or Cosmopolitan? Why is the absence of men a key feature of Oh Comely?
The ladies aren't presenting in a flirty manner.
5) How does the photography offer a fresh or unusual perspective on women?
The photos all give off an impression of being in a kind of real style shot.
Feature: More than gender
1) How does this feature offer a fresh perspective on gender and identity?
This article gives us another portrayal of sexual orientation and way of life as the individual that this article is about changes sex and way of life as the individual in the article changes relying upon how he/she needs to be seen.
2) What is the significance of the writer and photographer? How does this fit with the Oh Comelybrand?
The writer and photographer of the article is likewise a editor of the magazine "Entitle," which spreads comparative topic to that of Oh Comely.
3) What style of photography is used in this feature?
There is some nature photography in the component, with various streets and pathways, these can be allude to that of the various pathways and decision that we make in life just as relate in all respects intimately with the decisions that the sexual orientation liquid individual in the article.
A pessimistic portrayal could be that the individual is very ambivalent and can't make his brain up about something so noteworthy as sexual orientation.
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).
Adds to the moderate feel of the magazine and the possibility that it is gone for a sensibly specialty group of spectators.
Representation and identity
Work through the following questions on representation and Oh Comely:
1) How do representations in Oh Comely challenge stereotypes?
The magazine empowers women and makes them seen very powerful in this magazine.
2) What representations of race, ethnicity and nationality can be found in the 'Speaking Out' feature?
There is a diversity in the cultures on the 'speaking out' feature.
3) What representation of women and femininity can be found in Oh Comely?
They are presented very strong and brave. Very powerful.
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).
To demonstrate how men are not required and that lady can be similarly as incredible and inspiring without men. Disclosing to us how society has changed after some time.
Fourth-wave woman's rights is a period of women's liberation described by an emphasis on the strengthening of ladies and the utilization of web instruments. Goodness attractive most disobediently fits into this wave if women's liberation because of the inspiration through the magazine.
6) How does the 'More than gender' feature challenge Levi-Strauss's structuralist theory of binary opposition?Reveals to us how there are no contrary energies among sexual orientations and that anybody can change sexes in the event that they decide to.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.
They totally subvert these conventional gender roles due tot he explicit meetings where they demonstrate the assorted variety between the lady and the decent variety between the occupations they have. This shows how lady have changed throughout the years and they have turned out to be more dedicated as opposed to being house wifes.
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?
Excitement's statement of purpose says that it centers around furnishing the present new extravagance purchaser with motivational and open style and shopping thoughts.
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?
This is obvious in the ' More than Gender' area of the magazine the possibility of Andrew(a man) changing and getting to be Ash( a ladies). The transforming himself and going between the two sexual orientations as he gradually finds himself. The spread model likewise indicates the possibility of non-twofold and gender ambiguous styling.
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?
This can be valid because of the absence of coverlines. This reveals to us how the magazine is less unequivocal with points and perspectives, making more miracle for the crowd, contemplating what the magazine could be about.
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