Sub-Genre Analysis
Gender Representation
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We have been learning about gender representation in the media and about how patriarchy is quite popular when it comes to films and television. We analysed a scene from the movie 'American Psycho' which was very male orientated, in comparison to a scene from 007 Casino Royale where James Bond shows his more gentle side. The whole patriarchy idea portrays men as natural born leaders and the dominant gender constructed from strong, brave and hard men. in this James Bond passage you can see James bond showing affection when in the shower as he is cuddling and gently holding hands with the woman in the scene. This is something unexpected from what is supposed to be a 'hard' man. On the other hand, some would argue that he is still fulfilling his dominant male role as she is somewhat rested upon him for protection because she sees him as a strong male that can defend her. I also know that he does fill the role of protecting her throughout the film. However, earlier in the clip from around 43 seconds to 49 seconds he is seen almost by the looks of it crying while smearing the blood off of his face, this is completely opposite to the strong male role he was presented with and actually shows a lot of feminine traits, it even conjures up the image of a stereotypical girl crying in a bathroom while looking at the mirror and smudging her makeup, which thus makes him look very soft.
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Genre research
To help with the genre construction of our piece, we researched different romantic comedies
Scene
Opening Scene analysis: Se7en
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The Film Se7en is a Crime Fiction, Mystery and Psychological Thriller made by David Fincher. These genres are represented in the opening scene alone through Mise-en-scene, sound, narrative codes, cinematography, editing and typography.
The editing in this scene involves much cross cutting and fast cutting, which makes the audience unable to get a good look of what is actually happening during the scene. This links to the use of narrative codes, particularly enigma codes help to conform to the genre of mystery as enigma codes leave you wanting to finish the film/show to solve what leaves you puzzled during the film/show. Cinematography is co-used with this to further represent confusion as even when what the audience is trying to depict is shown in range from which it changes to a close shot to look as if it is providing somewhat visual support for the viewers, Mise- en-scene is then shown as the sentences the readers are trying to understand include censored words in a black ink that through the close shot and use of direct lighting, make the words censored appear slightly translucent which makes the readers eager to find out what the words say. The cuts then leave audience at the peak of lust for discovery of knowledge of the happenings in the scene, which thus enhances the enigma code. (1:09-1.12) The use of typography for the credits create the representation of a psychotic nature. For example, because the font of the words in the credits is what looks to be the calligraphy scratched writing, it suggests psychotic nature as the scratchings of words conforms to the common stereotype of behaviour that a psycho would perform, which adds the psychological thriller effect to the film. Typography is also used as an enigma code as ironically the poor calligraphy used for credits is the only thing the audience can actually read throughout the scene, as opposed to the aries font shown through the many cuts of typed up writing of something with relevance to the film, most probably a case which is clearer to read but still cannot be seen as the editing techniques decline you from seeing it which also enhances the audiences will to find out what is truly going on. |
My ideas for genre of coursework:(Romantic Comedy
Auteur Theory: Trailer Analysis
Auteur Theory is when a director presents and reflects their own original vision through their films. This theory began in 1954 by Francois Truffaut
Judd Apatow
History Of Hollywood: The Studio System
Back in the early 1900's, classic Hollywood movies were constructed from the biggest studios in Hollywood. These were separated into two groups:
- The Big Five
- MGM
- Paramount
- Warner Bros
- RKO
- Fox
- The Little Three
- Universal
- Colombia
- United Artists