Essay Plan: Spectatorship

1. Introduction
Define Spectatorship, what it involves. Apply Spectatorship as active individual interpretation (emotional/spectacle/intellectual) alignment, identity.
Choose:
Your thesis on how contemporary films show a more varied interpretations, either greater diversity or spectacle experiences, and participation between the audience and film. To what extent, your argument, which relevant critical approaches & texts.

2. Dominant/traditional approach to film Male Gaze, psychoanalysis & mirror stage. Male-centric view apply to Clockwork Orange as historical text. Examples of readings from this approach (alignment & identity) with analysis of micro aspects.

3. Links above to examples from readings to Black Swan (indie context) Fantasy, fragmented identity, psychoanalysis. Emotional, spectacle intellectual - Factors? Judgment: what extent is gender significant? There is still mileage in these critical approaches but readings from oppositional gazes.

4&5. Context of societal change and recognition of oppositional gazes & alternative readings. Black swan and Your Case Study choice - explain emotional responses, Factors and readings from other pov. Judgment: what extent is gender significant?

6. Fandom & technology, define how fandom adds an extra dimension to Spectatorship in terms of identity (Spider-Man comicon, Marvel vs Zombies, Star Wars, LotR) and Factors - examples here are the participation of the spectator with the text: individual interpretation by reworking & appropriating the film (gay or feminist versions) Hunger Games and Twilight a female fandom or fan made films. Emotional responses and fantasy: a return to the mirror stage but also for women?
7. Spectatorship with Blockbusters prioritises the spectacle using CGI and 3D to fight online piracy free movies. Vs cine literate audience, watching diversity inc exposure to foreign controversial film. Watch movies online and isolated, the emotional response less a shared experience or 'event'?

8. Conclusion - depends on the nature of the question and how you tie in the above. Predictions for the future of Spectatorship, fandom reinventions of film texts. Is there still relevance to the Male Gaze or the use of Psycholanalysis - can this be expressed/read in a more complex way? Is the Fandom an extention of the Mirror Stage - Is the film experience for spectators more relevant in constructing identity on a subconscious level? Has technology been a positive influence on spectatorship or has it devalued film so it must be controversial or spectacle driven to stand out?