When watching The Bodyguard I realized that the film was made in the early 90s and I observed overt text that already has been uninhabitable. But considering the nature and length of this paper I will focus more on tacit and ideologically loaded text or text that has naturalized representations of prejudicial presumptions threaded through them that bas been excepted as “unquestioned assumptions” (Hall 20). Specifically, through semiology, I will look at the film The Bodyguard …showed first 75 words of 1005 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1005 total…sexually available slave girl” is still seen across the lines of media but now “…she is center of a special admiration, covered in a sequined gown and supported by a white chorus line” (Hall 22). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Work Cited Hooks, bell. Outlaw Culture Resisting Representations. New York: Routledge, 1994. Hall, Stuart. “The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Idealogies an the Media”. A Cultural Studies Approach. Van Zoonen, Liesbet. “Media Texts and Gender”. Feminist Media Studies. London: Sage. 1982.