The main purpose of the study is to understand how Vestiaire Collective’s campaign film #saynotofastfashion from 2022 visually communicates two different messages. One intentional message about an activistic positioning in the issue of textile waste as well as one unintentional message about white supremacy. The material is investigated through a qualitative content analysis based on theories about activism in media and documentary narration, the white man’s guilt and postcolonial stereotypes in film. By splitting the material and analyzing text and image separately, markers for both messages are found. In a summarizing analysis the text and images separate communication are put in relation to each other in order to draw conclusions about the two part’s common message and function. The study concludes that the meaning of the text as well as text and image together is to show Vestiaire Collective as a wholesome, conscious and charitable company. However the images also send the message that westerners are needed in order to solve problems in non-western countries. Vestiaire Collective’s film represents the dark skinned Ghanaians in a diminishing and colonially stereotyped way and themselves as heroes in line with the white-savior-stereotype. Markers for activism are interpreted to be the way Vestiaire Collective are positioning themselves in the issue of textile waste as well as their suggestions and prompts for solutions. Another marker for activism is under which circumstances the film was published; in connection with Black Friday 2022 on social media. The media production included below is a documentation of the process of making a short advertising film about a cancer story from a relative’s perspective.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-68373 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Ullman, Ellen |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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