Binary opposition and ideology

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  • split west and east european
  • The kiosk worker represents the difference between the rich and poor.
  • The west european models have blond gelled hair where the east european have different hair styles.
  • the variety of colour represents the diversity of the brands clothes.
  • Fashionable men on a dirty truck.
  • The advert is to make the audience feel dissatisfied with their lifestyle.

Ideology- The beliefs fixed to something.

Dominant ideology- The beliefs believed by society and the culture but this can change as the culture/ society changes.

In the 1920s women weren't allowed to smoke as the ideology of women smoking meant women were prostitutes or easy.

A brand called lucky smoke made adverts advertising women smoking and the ideology of this was that women who smoked were rich, pretty and skinny. This is an example of a dominant ideology.

Tide advert ideology.
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  • That women should be housewives.
  • women do the cleaning.                                               .



  • Aimed at heterosexual women.
  • Ideology is that this eyeliner makes women desirable to men.
  • If you don't wear makeup your not a women. 

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