photographist

“Aspects of life, concern for people, for what happens between people, make up the world - I think that’s what drove me from cultural management to sociology. As an art researcher , I work on symbolic productions, on how we can use art as a means of socialization, of social links between people. I specialize in film, more generally on the issue of representation, the role of image in our society... After my thesis on the American films of European émigré directors in the early twentieth century, I am trying to expand my exploration and now work on generic classification of film. Who creates film genres? What do they say about our society? At what time do they change? How are they challenged by the the Internet and Web 2.0?

“New Look for a New Life” and “How to Look Good Naked” are two makeover television programs in which I was interested. On the one hand, to study how they work - especially for what gender models, i. e. the male and female models , which may and are promoted. There are many more female models than male, because there are very few male candidates. It is often the husband who makes his wife apply - usually because she has experienced motherhood. On the other hand, via an opinion survey, I wanted to see how the audience receive and interpret these issues, what they do with them, how it is translated into their own fashion sense, their own way to present themselves, and finally at what point the models are considered, negotiated, discussed or rejected.”

Chloé Delaporte
PhD in Sociology, Assistant Professor in Economy of Film, University Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3

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