IMPORTANT THEORIES
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Levi Strauss Theory (NARRATIVE)
Binary opposition drives a narrative forward, you need opposition to make a movie go along.
Example
In the killing, we know nothing about the investigator but be we know more about the daughter
Todorov Theory (NARRATIVE)
1. Equilibrium
2. Disruption of equilibrium
3. Recognition of the disruption
4. An attempt to repair the damage
5. New equilibrium
Example
1. In 'hunger games' we meet the main character Katniss who is practising for the hunger games
2. Katniss sister gets chosen to be a tribute. There sister relationship breaks.
3. Katniss has realised what she got herself into. She knows that she may not see her family again if she isn't careful. She will try to win the hunger games
4. When Rue dies, this makes Katniss stronger and more determined to win the game.
5. Katniss wins the hunger game
Steve Neale Theory
Genre are instance of repetition and difference. Neale believes that films of a type (genre, like romance or horror) should include features that are similar, so the audience know it is a horror film or romance, but also include features that are different, to keep an audience interested.
example:
In Mr Robot is film noir which should typically have a voice over, black and white, urban location, drinking, money etc. But the difference is that there is minimal drinking, the colour is dull.
Laura Mulvey
Women look at themselves through men. The “male gaze” invokes the sexual politics of the gaze and suggests a sexualised way of looking that empowers men and objectifies women. In the male gaze, woman is visually positioned as an “object” of heterosexual male desire.
Stuart Hall Theory
Levi Strauss Theory (NARRATIVE)
Binary opposition drives a narrative forward, you need opposition to make a movie go along.
Example
In the killing, we know nothing about the investigator but be we know more about the daughter
Todorov Theory (NARRATIVE)
1. Equilibrium
2. Disruption of equilibrium
3. Recognition of the disruption
4. An attempt to repair the damage
5. New equilibrium
Example
1. In 'hunger games' we meet the main character Katniss who is practising for the hunger games
2. Katniss sister gets chosen to be a tribute. There sister relationship breaks.
3. Katniss has realised what she got herself into. She knows that she may not see her family again if she isn't careful. She will try to win the hunger games
4. When Rue dies, this makes Katniss stronger and more determined to win the game.
5. Katniss wins the hunger game
Steve Neale Theory
Genre are instance of repetition and difference. Neale believes that films of a type (genre, like romance or horror) should include features that are similar, so the audience know it is a horror film or romance, but also include features that are different, to keep an audience interested.
example:
In Mr Robot is film noir which should typically have a voice over, black and white, urban location, drinking, money etc. But the difference is that there is minimal drinking, the colour is dull.
Laura Mulvey
Women look at themselves through men. The “male gaze” invokes the sexual politics of the gaze and suggests a sexualised way of looking that empowers men and objectifies women. In the male gaze, woman is visually positioned as an “object” of heterosexual male desire.
- Vulnerable woman
- highly sexualised
- typical house wife
- skinny
- good looking
- gets used
- sexual
- white
- attempts to help out but gets rejected
Stuart Hall Theory
States that media texts are encoded by the producer, meaning that whoever produces the text fills it with values and messages. The text is then decoded by the audience and different people decode the text in different ways and not always in the way the producer intended.
Encoding: the process by which the text is constructed by its producers.
Decoding: the process by which the audience reads, understands and interprets a text/video
Encoding: the process by which the text is constructed by its producers.
Decoding: the process by which the audience reads, understands and interprets a text/video
Deborah Knight
Thrill comes from the prolonging of the inevitable
Theorists (feminist):
Bell Hook
- Feminism is for everyone.
- Colour codes: Lighter skinned/white women are considered more desirable and fit better into the western ideology of beauty.
- Females are seen as objects.
- Believes that domestic violence should be called 'patriarchal violence'.
Example from the killing,
In the killing the lady is being chased in very minimal clothing.
The lady is raped and killed.
Van Zoonen (Feminist)
Van Zoonen believes the media portray images of stereotypical women and this behaviour reinforces societal views. The media does this because they believe it reflects dominant social values (what people believe in) and male producers are influenced by this. This is a patriarchy (a society ran by men for men) which dominates and oppresses women.
- Gender is performative
Thrill comes from the prolonging of the inevitable
Theorists (feminist):
Bell Hook
- Feminism is for everyone.
- Colour codes: Lighter skinned/white women are considered more desirable and fit better into the western ideology of beauty.
- Females are seen as objects.
- Believes that domestic violence should be called 'patriarchal violence'.
Example from the killing,
In the killing the lady is being chased in very minimal clothing.
The lady is raped and killed.
Van Zoonen (Feminist)
Van Zoonen believes the media portray images of stereotypical women and this behaviour reinforces societal views. The media does this because they believe it reflects dominant social values (what people believe in) and male producers are influenced by this. This is a patriarchy (a society ran by men for men) which dominates and oppresses women.
- Gender is performative
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