The material body of a film is the combination of cinematography‚ mise-en-scene‚ editing and soundtrack. These elements are what construct the images we see and sounds we hear. Balancing them is key and excluding any leaves disjoint and confusing narratives. This essay will examine the material body of The Matrix and how key elements shape narrative and character. Often confused with cinematography‚ mise-en-scene is what we see‚ not how it is shown to us. Editing is how these images are strung together
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look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves ’ (Berger 1972:47). Discuss how this proposition of the ‘male gaze’ has been applied to feminist studies of the media. “One thing I really envy about men‚ ’ a friend once said to me‚ ’is the right to look ’ (Dyer 1982) Johnathan Schroeder posited ‘...to gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies psychological relationship of power
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Two important French pioneers and theories include philosopher Michel Foucault’s medical gaze‚ the method that medical professionals separate the body from the person‚ and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage development of the human psyche‚ where the infant recognizes their mirror image as themselves. (CITE?) The gaze theory then spread to feminist theory‚ where the gaze now deals with how men look at women‚ women look at themselves and other
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but some feminists argue that gender equality implies a necessary liberation of both men and women from traditional cultural roles‚ and look at the problems men face as well. Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. Motivated by the quest for social justice‚ feminist inquiry provides a wide range of perspectives on social‚ cultural‚ and political phenomena. Important topics for feminist theory and politics
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"What are the main theories which we have studied so far and how have they affected how you view television?"-This is the question which this paper is supposed to answer. Obviously there is not enough time or space in which to discuss every theory which we have touched on. As a compromise I decided to write about a topic to which almost every theory that we have discussed can be applied: MTV and the "Madonna Phenomenon". As E. Ann Kaplan stated in her article on feminist criticism‚ Madonna is
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and draws on theoretical frameworks and cultural production specific to gender/culture/media/visual studiesThe course is organized around a series of questions: • Whose images‚ voices and perspectives are included or excluded in the photographs‚ films‚ television programs‚ newspapers‚ paintings‚ internet sites‚ comics‚ advertisements‚ magazines‚ art exhibitions‚ music videos and video games that constitute popular and mainstream culture? • Who is producing and who is consuming mainstream representations
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Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms
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idea of sexual objectification and its reality. It will examine and explain the whole discourse of ‘Sexual Objectification’ and the related issues. The different dimensions of this subject have been bifurcated as: Views on sexual objectification‚ Feminist Perspectives on Objectification‚ Effects of Sexual Objectification‚ Sexual Objectification: In the society‚ Sexual Objectification: In the religious context and last but not the least and perhaps the most important; Sexual Objectification: In the
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This film is an incredibly rich teaching resource that lends itself to enhancing the visual literacy of senior students. It has won numerous awards‚ including two for cinematography‚ and as such has great merit for teaching students about effective uses of visual techniques and film conventions. The Italian director‚ the auteur Salvatores‚ has made a film that is extraordinarily compelling: in terms of cinematography‚ almost any random pause of the film would depict an incredible use of camera angle
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Not only do Soviet Montage‚ German expressionism‚ and French impressionism influence nearly every film we see today‚ it also molds and builds the appearance of films and help to evoke emotion from the intended audience. Montage can best be described as the selecting‚ editing‚ or piecing together of film to create some type of meaning‚ this is seen in some way‚ shape‚ or form‚ in every film. German expressionism is seen as a movement towards distorted settings‚ along with supernatural stories. Expressionism
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