Friday, 13 June 2025

Unseen textual analysis practice: PG tips advert

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This advertisement uses many conventions of the reality show in a manner which will be accessible and easily recognisable to it's working class target audience



  • PG tips connotations of working class identity
  • MES is stereotypical working class, newbuild house, aspirational 
  • Intertextual references to TOWIE
  • Tabloid newspaper: symbolic of working class identity 
  • Stereotypical and hyperreal representation of working class lifestyle 
  • Model is hegemonically attractive yet also stereotypical working class. Appealing to middle aged heterosexual men, yet also realistic and relatable to a heterosexual female audience 
  • Ideology
  • Narrative
  • Intertextuality
  • Married couple 
  • Middle aged, working class, white British people 
  • PG tips: stereotypical working class 
  • MES of the stacked boxes suggests a humorous obsession with the brand 
  • Performance: shouting at children
  • Stereotypical working class setting
  • References to reality shows like TOWIE
  • Soundtrack is stereotypically British and comedic, reference to comedy shows 
  • The newspaper constructs a hyperreal representation of the working class
  • The woman is hegemonically attractive, appealing to a heterosexual male audience , yet relatable for a female audience