Saturday, October 07, 2006
Task Seven
More Keywords....Post Feminism
Part of the post modern perspective which takes the achievemens of feminism for granted and views it as ineffective in explaining the current condition of women and the many identity choices they face.
In this film we have pretty girls that attract the male, but they know this which makes it ok for them as it is their aim.
Teen Movie
A film directed at a target audience of teenagers and adressing their interests.
My chosen text is a teen movie
Stereotype
The social classification of a group of people by identifying common characteristics and universally applying them in a generalised way.
In this film we have characters that break and conform to the stereotypes that they are given
Representation
Provide models of how we see gender, social groups, individuals and aspects of the world we all inhabit.
Representation is important as my independent study is focusing on the representation of females in my chosen text
Post Modernism
'After the modern' generic variation in media texts and as a definition of cultural attitudes. They don't follow generic conventions or traditional narratives.
My chosen text is not generic or traditional
Gender
Psychological and cultural aspects of behaviour associated with masculinity or femininity, acquired through socialisation, in accordance with the expectations of a particular society.
My texts includes males and females, but they don't particularly just follow their sex in the way they behave. We have a battle of the sexes in this film during the court case
Binary Oppositions
A term used by Claude Levi-Strauss as part of his argument that narratives are structured around oppositional elements in human culture, for example, good and evil, life and death, night and day, raw and cooked.
In this text there is the battle of male and female, good and evil, family and independence and many more binary oppositions
Iconography
The distinguishing elements, in terms of props and visual details, which characterize a genre.
This film is full of iconography relating to the media as the main character has an obbsession with wanting to be famous
Empathy
The ability to share the emotions or piont of view of a group or individual.
Although there is no one person in the film who the audience can empathise with on a whole, during different scenes the audience are able to empathise with different characters
Determinism
A marxist concept that individuals and institutions have no chioce of their behaviour because their decisions are shaped by socioeconomic content of the media
Kimberly is obbsessed by wanting to be famous so everything she does is because of what she sees on the TV
Sherish at 10:19 AM