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Oppositional Gazes

1. Recap on Black Swan and how Freud and Lacan apply to these films - key example of scenes & Micro. (influence/relationship of parental/authority figures, repression subconscious, identity, sexual fantasy, psycho-sexual themes phallic/yonic, violence)

What message or meaning can we interpret about the story and the events in the film?

Does the Male Gaze apply - examples and why?

Is the director deliberately using this for an intellectual pleasure or spectacle and emotional?

What links are there to Clockwork Orange - our historical text. How does it compare in it's use of Psychoanalysis (parental/authority figures, repression subconscious, identity, sexual fantasy)
How does it show the development of the significance of Gender in Spectatorship since 1970's?



2. Present your oppositional gazes - Queer Gaze, Female Gaze, Black Gaze

1. What make it different to the Male Gaze?

2. Apply it - how does it offer a different reading to the film from this perspective?

3. Analysis: what is the meaning behind the film from this perspective - is it intellectual, spectacle or emotional pleasure

On a contemporary film of your choice using reviews, ratings and google scholar to apply an

Reviews: Kermode, Egbert, Bradshaw
Google Scholar references


Present with key scenes that show your analysis of the oppositional gaze and how it is constructed (micro) to create response in the spectator

How does this relate to Theories of Spectatorship & Alignment?

Alignment - who are we positioned with, is this complicated by the Gaze - is this deliberate to get a message across (intellectual)?



Emotional Responses - how does adopting this 'Gaze' make you feel?
Factors that affect adopting this Gaze -  experiences, not being representative of the dominant group/approach

Conclusion: what does it offer to our response to the question - is Gender the most significant factor?

"How far does a spectator’s gender affect their viewing experience in contemporary cinema?"

Set work for A2 Film today 22nd April

Welcome back after Easter break. 

I id not receive any of the essays I set the week over the break, so I have asked Mr Dixon to collect your studies in addition to the homework at 3:40 today.

The work is the post below this one.

Also due today is your analysis of spectatorship using your own example that demonstrates one of the Oppositional Gazes, to be included in your final paragraph for the essay and feeding into your thesis and conclusion - how signifiant is gender in a spectator's reception of a film?

Next week we are moving onto Spectacle driven Movies and Fandom so this is your last chance to get the exam essay submitted.

Post them to your blogs 

Homework for next week is to research audience fanculture surrounding either: 

Preliminary Reading
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-biggest-movie-fandoms
Theory: John Fiske on Fandom
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Fandom
Case Study on 'Jack & The Beanstalk'


the Marvel comics franchise (Avengers, Spiderman or Xmen)
or The Hunger Games 
or the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII
or (sigh!) Lord of The Rings

Q1. Who are these people (demographics: age, gender, subculture [geeks], sexuality?)
Q2. What evidence can you find (forums etc) to show they affect the Production & Marketing of these films
Q3. Comicon - how is this linked to Marketing & Distribution
Q4. What type of pleasures are offered (subcultural identity, spectacle, ideologies/values, mirror stage fantasy?







1.  Why is Fandom significant to our studies on Spectatorship? What links can you make between how audience interpretation and readings of film are  explored here?

'Queer' Reading of Lord of the Rings
Female Fandom & the Hunger Games

2. Fandom & Spectatorship:
http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Criticism-Ideology/Fans-and-Fandom-FANDOM-AS-A-SOCIAL-ACTIVITY.html
These highly communal experiences, responses, and interpretations of fandom also translate into activities beyond simply viewing a highly anticipated and appreciated film. Film fans approach watching a film as just one stage within a wider process of consumption and production, with secondary texts such as promotional materials and reviews leading up to the moment of viewing, fanzine reviews and commentaries following the initial filmic encounter, and repeated viewings and the collecting of DVDs with their special features. Film fandom is never about just "going to see a movie."



3. DEFINITIONS OF FANDOM TERMINOLOGY

• fandom can be defined or explained as the state of being a fan or all that encompasses fan culture and fan behavior in general, or the study of fans and fan behavior.
• the definition of an audience is: an assembly of listeners or spectators.
• the definition of fanatic is: marked or moved by excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical devotion.
• the definition of a fan is:
  1) an enthusiastic follower of a sport or entertainment or
  2) an enthusiastic admirer (as of a celebrity).
• fandom is expressed individually (ex. a fan surfing the Web for sites about their favorite celebrity) and/or collectively (ex. a sporting event or concert).
• Texts or commercial commodities are the objects of fandom (ex. celebrities, movies, music videos, teams, etc.)
• Fiske defines three fan "reactions" to their text of choice:
  1) semiotic productivity is when fans use their object of fandom to create social meaning in their own lives (ex. a fan who gains confidence watching his or her favorite character on TV).
  2) enunciative productivity is when fans express their fandom to the outside world through speech or appearance (ex. fans wearing their favorite team's jerseys).
  3) textual productivity is when fans create texts based on their object of fandom (ex. fan fiction).

These are the most general of definitions. 



Conclusion - is gender still significant when applied to film fandom?
Post your thoughts as comments below  

Work for today 2/4/14 & Easter h/w

Essay for today mock exam - email

1. Complete the analysis grids of Black Swan using the Mirror Stage and Male Gaze

2. Read the 3 resources and apply their ideas to chosen scenes

3. Write a response to the essay question on Gender (title is under last weeks lesson) using each of the 4 critical approaches (psychoanalysis, mirror stage, male gaze, Spectatorship) to Black Swan as a separate paragraph.

4. Look at last weeks lesson (some didn't cover) to help you and the 3 resources on Black Swan

Intro
Answer the question - how significant gender to a spectators experience and what evidence do you have for your argument?

Para 1.
Psychoanalysis
Themes of parental influence (see clips on Psycho etc) on childhood and repressed subconscious animalistic desires (sex violence, sexuality)

Para 2.
Mirror stage
Themes of struggles with identity and the any Micro techniques used to break the God like perspective given by continuity editing and use of the 3rd person camera

Para 3
Male Gaze
Voyeurism and sexual gratification

Para 4
Spectatorship - alignment, emotional response/intellectual/spectacle and FACTORS - MAKE A JUDGMENT ABOUT GENDER IN BLACK SWAN
How does this GENDERED approach apply similarly to Clockwork Orange as well as Black Swan?
Make a judgement: IS GENDER SIGIFICANT STILL?

Conclusion
Sum up your points and argument

Email to Rich.barton@leighacademy.org.uk when complete

Homework for Easter - counter argument; Oppositional Gaze

Research oppositional gazes - queer gaze, female gaze, black gaze - and write Present an analysis on a contemporary film of your choice using reviews, ratings and google scholar to apply an Oppositional Gaze.
Present this film week 1 next module with key scenes that show your analysis of the oppositional gaze and how it is constructed (micro) to create response in the spectator

Use the grid to structure