10 key words from the "essential word dictionary” that I will find useful
1) Male gaze: This is the term that is used by Laura Mulvey making reference to "visual pleasures and narrative cinema" (1975). She uses this theory to describe what she saw as the male point of view adopted by the camera for the benefit of an assumed male audience.
Influenced feminism.
How I will find it useful- the film goes against the theory therefore I can debate that society has changed now and doesn’t follow the typical conventions of a slasher film as well as typical representations of women in a slasher film.
2) Laura Mulvey: 1941- feminist academic and media and film critic responsible of theory male gaze.
How I will find it useful- research more on her theory and apple how the film does not follow her theory
3) Post modernism- doesn’t follow traditional narratives, or genre expectations. Include ambivalent endings that challenge the relationship between the text and the audience.
How I will find it useful- this can be applied as the film has a distorting beginning and ending. There is also a complex narrative as there are stories within stories (an affair between both friends with one of the husbands, whilst both trying to escape from the cave).
4) Representation- provides models of how we see people (gender, social groups, individuals and aspects of the world we all inhabit. They are ideological which means that they are constructed within a framework of values and beliefs. They are therefore meditated and reflect the value systems on their sources. No representation is real only a version of the real.
Representation is the key to many media debated and is usually described as being positive or negative depending on how they are presented in the media.
How I will find this useful- this is my main focus of my independent study as I found it unusual in the film that only females were being represented. And also I found it interesting that a male passed away in the beginning of the film.
5) resolution- This is the conclusion of a narrative usually where all the problems and questions and uncertainties are solved, answering and or clarifying to that satisfaction of the audience
How I would find this useful- it didn’t follow the generic conventions of a slasher film as there was no resolution at the end that was solved by a final woman.
6) Zombie movie- a horror subgenre where the living are plagued by armies of the living dead who usually survive by devouring the living.
7) censorship- controlling the media context by removing, surprising or classifying elements seems offensive or subversive for moral, political, economic, social or religious reasons
How I will find this useful- I can refer back to how things have changed and how the Descent does not sensor gory shots
1) Male gaze: This is the term that is used by Laura Mulvey making reference to "visual pleasures and narrative cinema" (1975). She uses this theory to describe what she saw as the male point of view adopted by the camera for the benefit of an assumed male audience.
Influenced feminism.
How I will find it useful- the film goes against the theory therefore I can debate that society has changed now and doesn’t follow the typical conventions of a slasher film as well as typical representations of women in a slasher film.
2) Laura Mulvey: 1941- feminist academic and media and film critic responsible of theory male gaze.
How I will find it useful- research more on her theory and apple how the film does not follow her theory
3) Post modernism- doesn’t follow traditional narratives, or genre expectations. Include ambivalent endings that challenge the relationship between the text and the audience.
How I will find it useful- this can be applied as the film has a distorting beginning and ending. There is also a complex narrative as there are stories within stories (an affair between both friends with one of the husbands, whilst both trying to escape from the cave).
4) Representation- provides models of how we see people (gender, social groups, individuals and aspects of the world we all inhabit. They are ideological which means that they are constructed within a framework of values and beliefs. They are therefore meditated and reflect the value systems on their sources. No representation is real only a version of the real.
Representation is the key to many media debated and is usually described as being positive or negative depending on how they are presented in the media.
How I will find this useful- this is my main focus of my independent study as I found it unusual in the film that only females were being represented. And also I found it interesting that a male passed away in the beginning of the film.
5) resolution- This is the conclusion of a narrative usually where all the problems and questions and uncertainties are solved, answering and or clarifying to that satisfaction of the audience
How I would find this useful- it didn’t follow the generic conventions of a slasher film as there was no resolution at the end that was solved by a final woman.
6) Zombie movie- a horror subgenre where the living are plagued by armies of the living dead who usually survive by devouring the living.
7) censorship- controlling the media context by removing, surprising or classifying elements seems offensive or subversive for moral, political, economic, social or religious reasons
How I will find this useful- I can refer back to how things have changed and how the Descent does not sensor gory shots
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