Discuss the film - reactions, thoughts, meaning, memorable moments
New Info: How does it compare to the Case Study of Clockwork Orange?
Create Meaning: Opening Scene analysis - Comparative analysis of scenes video annotations
Apply to demonstrate: Ludovico Technique (editing them together as a Spectator) and add comments
Session 2: Clockwork Orange and the Male Gaze
New Info:
Split up Scenes:
Apply to demonstrate: Video Essay: Recreate the Spectator scene
Session 2:
Starting Points: Outline, explore and summarise:
Debates and Critical Approaches to Spectatorship
Psychoanalysis - Lacan Mirror Stage
Debates and Critical Approaches to Spectatorship
Psychoanalysis - Lacan Mirror Stage
Create Meaning: Discuss how these approaches can be applied to film
Wadjda (Women in Saudi Arabia)
Transformers (Sexist & Racist?)
Apply: Create a short film that explores this approach to spectatorship
Plenary: Clockwork Orange - Mirror Stage?
Homework:
1. Write up your notes using the Video Essays posted today, fill in the sheet below:
2. Start your own Case Study using a contemporary film (last 10 years) as an contrasting example to answer the following question:
"How far does a spectator’s gender affect their viewing experience in contemporary cinema?"
Remember: Psychoanalysis pre-supposes that the viewer is Male and Heterosexual and that Meaning is fixed, they will read it based on these assumptions!!!!
Present your film & 4 selected scenes next week and explain why you have selected it to answer the question, thinking about how it addresses the points below:
- The importance of the Male Gaze - what other Gazes are there (Queer, Black, Female?)
- Kubrick's films are highly provocative - especially to women
- These films manipulate who you are Aligned with to get across a Preferred Reading
- These films have an intellectual meaning behind them rather than Spectacle/Fun
- These films are UK Independent productions made in the 1970s before 'The Rise of the Blockbuster'
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