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Tomb Raider Anniversary: blog tasks Language and Audience Analyse the  game cover  for Tomb Raider Anniversary (above). 1) How does the cover communicate the genre of the game? It's definitely adventurous, action, mystic. The outfit worn by Lara Croft is a hint, the weapons holsters coupled with the cargo shorts and blue top will suggest that it's an adventure game, but only because of the genre conventions already developed for games like this, if you didn't know the conventions before, chances are it might have gone over your head.I think the colour scheme represents the best adventure genre through the range of colours, such as brown and gold, which have connotations of mystery and riches, as well as being a key element of colour lighting, as it relates to elements of intertextuality that appear in Indiana Jones films. 2) How does the pose and costume of the character appeal to primarily male audiences? The pose is known in a lot of media texts, e...

1) What definitions are offered by the factsheet for ‘feminism ‘and ‘patriarchy’? Feminism is a movement which aims for equality for women – to be  treated as equal to men socially, economically, and politically. patriarchy (male dominance in  society) 2) Why did bell hooks publish her 1984 book ‘Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center’? She had recognised a lack of diversity within the feminist movement, arguing that these diverse voices had been ignored and positioned outside the main feminist body. 3) What aspects of feminism and oppression are the focus for a lot of bell hooks’s work? It is unfair to make all women equal with men; not all men are equal with men because of sexism, orientation and ethnicity. Hooks used her research to propose a more inclusive theory of feminism that supported acknowledgement and acceptance of differences for women within a sisterhood. 4) What is intersectionality and what does hooks argue regarding this? I...