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Wednesday 21 May 2014
Thursday 15 May 2014
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?
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?
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Wednesday 7 May 2014
5.3 Seminar notes: changes in spectatorship & audience experiences
Changes
Change 1. Spectatorship & The Gaze
Dominant male perspective (psychoanalysis and mirror stage, male gaze) to a greater variety of interpretations, recognition of oppositional gazes from male dominated (contemporary last 10 years)
1970s (UK INDEPENDENT) Clockwork Orange - RAPE, VIOLENCE, CONTROL
Male POV, male Gaze
No black characters
Female characters are victims of rape and murder
Homosexual teacher is a threat and perverted
Alignment is with a teenage sociopath, rapist, murderer, but tortured and controlled by the state behaviour control leads to contemplating suicide. Pity? Freedom of the individual?
2010's
(US INDIE) Black Swan - has psychoanalysis, mirror stage and male gaze (dominant view) but also open to female and queer gaze.
Your own film has oppositional Gaze. (CHECK IF IT IS INDEPENDENT)
FOREIGN 'HYPED' FILM
Change 2. Watching film individual basis (internet piracy streaming online distribution of film) lesser so in cinema and therefore together
Audience can change how you view - watch it in episodic instalments, or 'Binge viewing' of franchises
You pay for it in a cinema you have more investment in the film...
Pleasure: Intellectual Interpretation
- no longer such a social event emotional/outrage reactions from others 'a shared experience': talk about it, share opinions argue about beliefs & interpretations (FACTORs - experience) - take this away left you...
Emotional: Reactions & Factors (experiences)
- lesser impact Comedy & Horror (laugh & scream together),
DOES THIS MAKE YOU MORE DESENSITISED TO EMOTIONAL IMPACT?
WHAT DOES A DIRECTOR HAVE TO DO TO RAMP UP THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT TO THE FRAGMENTED AUDIENCE?
- Alignment with the character, a stronger relationship with them...FILTH, (additional sequels & reboots) Kubrick did it - good thing: Sophisticated (a return art form - techniques that directors used in the 'golden age' 1970s Blockbusters spectacle FORMULAIC the same) CAN NOT RELY ON SPECTACLE because not on the big screen.
POV - handheld camera PARANORMAL ACTIVITY - alone, by yourself (setting in a more isolated and secluded way that relate to where you are watching it) IMMERSION
GOOD THING!
- Provocative & Disturbing, Controversy & Sensationalisation (girl wearing least amount of clothes for attention?)
Densensitised
SPECTACLE not provocative ideas, but VISUALS. Less intellectually pleasurable, is this lazy filmmaking? Is there a meaningful narrative behind the Hyped
HUMAN CENTIPEDE
Change 3. Greater Diversity of film being watched?
More diversity in what the audience watch: foreign cinema, independent cinema, 'cine literate' greater understanding and appreciation of diversity of cultures and film experiences (not just diet of Hollywood)
HYPE OVER CRAFT?
FOREIGN FILMS = NATIONAL CINEMA - are our expectations that they have MORE TO SAY?
NYMPHOMANIAC - LARS VON TRIER
Unsimulated sex scenes THEY ACTUALLY ARE HAVING SEX !
Shia Lebouf shagging in a film for real. Controversial - people want to see this aspect
Career - TRANSFORMERS - to be fair (porn doubles - but still...) Artist
INITIMATE - 'suited to the solo spectator'
In October 2013, a series of posters were released, each depicting the film's characters during the moment of orgasm.[22] Along with the appetizers and the character posters, five theatrical posters (three for the complete feature and one for each volume) and an international trailer featuring some of the explicit sexual scenes, were released.[citation needed]
Plot
The critical consensus is: "Its graphic violence and sprawling length will prove too much for some viewers to take, but Noomi Rapace's gripping performance makes The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo an unforgettable viewing experience."[3] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 76% based on reviews from 36 critics.[4] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars, noting that "[the film] is a compelling thriller to begin with, but it adds the rare quality of having a heroine more fascinating than the story".[5]
Spectatorship: Emotional? Intellectual? Spectacle - the rape scene?
Interpretations: Male Gaze, Queer Gaze, Female Gaze?
- Spectacle: 3D & IMAX, BLOCKBUSTERS
1970's - 2010's: internet allows relationship with the audience: similar arguments to the Music Industry in AS Media Studies.
1960's Star Trek & Star Wars, the internet has facilitated the sharing and collaberation of fandom around the text.
Must have relationship with them to have the shared experience, community
Dress up
Identification (mirror stage, fantasy) and appropriation of characters, re-imagined for a queer audience
Fan made fiction surrounding the marketing and distribution of the film.
fanatic loyalty
Change 1. Spectatorship & The Gaze
Dominant male perspective (psychoanalysis and mirror stage, male gaze) to a greater variety of interpretations, recognition of oppositional gazes from male dominated (contemporary last 10 years)
1970s (UK INDEPENDENT) Clockwork Orange - RAPE, VIOLENCE, CONTROL
Male POV, male Gaze
No black characters
Female characters are victims of rape and murder
Homosexual teacher is a threat and perverted
Alignment is with a teenage sociopath, rapist, murderer, but tortured and controlled by the state behaviour control leads to contemplating suicide. Pity? Freedom of the individual?
2010's
(US INDIE) Black Swan - has psychoanalysis, mirror stage and male gaze (dominant view) but also open to female and queer gaze.
Your own film has oppositional Gaze. (CHECK IF IT IS INDEPENDENT)
FOREIGN 'HYPED' FILM
Change 2. Watching film individual basis (internet piracy streaming online distribution of film) lesser so in cinema and therefore together
Audience can change how you view - watch it in episodic instalments, or 'Binge viewing' of franchises
You pay for it in a cinema you have more investment in the film...
Pleasure: Intellectual Interpretation
- no longer such a social event emotional/outrage reactions from others 'a shared experience': talk about it, share opinions argue about beliefs & interpretations (FACTORs - experience) - take this away left you...
Emotional: Reactions & Factors (experiences)
- lesser impact Comedy & Horror (laugh & scream together),
DOES THIS MAKE YOU MORE DESENSITISED TO EMOTIONAL IMPACT?
WHAT DOES A DIRECTOR HAVE TO DO TO RAMP UP THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT TO THE FRAGMENTED AUDIENCE?
- Alignment with the character, a stronger relationship with them...FILTH, (additional sequels & reboots) Kubrick did it - good thing: Sophisticated (a return art form - techniques that directors used in the 'golden age' 1970s Blockbusters spectacle FORMULAIC the same) CAN NOT RELY ON SPECTACLE because not on the big screen.
POV - handheld camera PARANORMAL ACTIVITY - alone, by yourself (setting in a more isolated and secluded way that relate to where you are watching it) IMMERSION
GOOD THING!
- Provocative & Disturbing, Controversy & Sensationalisation (girl wearing least amount of clothes for attention?)
Densensitised
SPECTACLE not provocative ideas, but VISUALS. Less intellectually pleasurable, is this lazy filmmaking? Is there a meaningful narrative behind the Hyped
HUMAN CENTIPEDE
Change 3. Greater Diversity of film being watched?
More diversity in what the audience watch: foreign cinema, independent cinema, 'cine literate' greater understanding and appreciation of diversity of cultures and film experiences (not just diet of Hollywood)
HYPE OVER CRAFT?
FOREIGN FILMS = NATIONAL CINEMA - are our expectations that they have MORE TO SAY?
NYMPHOMANIAC - LARS VON TRIER
Unsimulated sex scenes THEY ACTUALLY ARE HAVING SEX !
Shia Lebouf shagging in a film for real. Controversial - people want to see this aspect
Career - TRANSFORMERS - to be fair (porn doubles - but still...) Artist
INITIMATE - 'suited to the solo spectator'
| Nymphomaniac | |
|---|---|
Volume 1 theatrical release poster
| |
| Directed by | Lars von Trier |
| Produced by | Marie Cecilie Gade Louise Vesth |
| Starring | Charlotte Gainsbourg Stellan Skarsgård Stacy Martin Shia LaBeouf Christian Slater Jamie Bell Uma Thurman Willem Dafoe Mia GothSophie Kennedy Clark Connie Nielsen Michaël PasJean-Marc Barr Udo Kier |
| Cinematography | Manuel Alberto Claro |
| Editing by | Volume I: Morten HøjbjergBoth volumes: Molly Marlene Stensgaard |
| Studio | Zentropa Entertainments Heimatfilm Film i Väst Artificial Eye Les Films du Losange |
| Distributed by | France: Les Films du LosangeGermany: Concorde FilmverleihUnited States: Magnolia Pictures |
| Release dates |
|
| Running time | Volume I: 117 minutes[1] 145 minutes (Uncut)[2] Volume II: 124 minutes[3] |
| Country | Denmark Belgium France Germany[4] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.7 million ($2.35 million per film) |
| Box office | Volume I: $12,161,483[5] Volume II: $4,093,644[6] Both volumes: $16,255,127 |
In October 2013, a series of posters were released, each depicting the film's characters during the moment of orgasm.[22] Along with the appetizers and the character posters, five theatrical posters (three for the complete feature and one for each volume) and an international trailer featuring some of the explicit sexual scenes, were released.[citation needed]
Plot
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
|---|---|
Swedish release poster
| |
| Directed by | Niels Arden Oplev |
| Produced by | Søren Stærmose |
| Screenplay by | Nikolaj Arcel Rasmus Heisterberg |
| Based on | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson |
| Starring | Michael Nyqvist Noomi Rapace |
| Music by | Jacob Groth |
| Cinematography | Eric Kress Jens Fischer |
| Editing by | Anne Østerud |
| Studio | Yellow Bird Music Box Films Alliance Films LumiereGAGA |
| Distributed by | Nordisk Film |
| Release dates |
|
| Running time | 152 minutes |
| Country | Sweden[1] |
| Language | Swedish |
| Budget | $13 million[2] |
| Box office | $104,384,415[2] |
Spectatorship: Emotional? Intellectual? Spectacle - the rape scene?
Interpretations: Male Gaze, Queer Gaze, Female Gaze?
- Spectacle: 3D & IMAX, BLOCKBUSTERS
AVATAR
Change 4: Fandoms & the relationship/experience of the film
LOTR: A marked change from something considered 'sad', 'obsessive' or 'geeky' becoming accepted into the mainstream. Could celebrate their fandom.
Film experience has moved beyond the text to the collaberation, community and identification process surrounding the text.
1970's - 2010's: internet allows relationship with the audience: similar arguments to the Music Industry in AS Media Studies.
1960's Star Trek & Star Wars, the internet has facilitated the sharing and collaberation of fandom around the text.
Must have relationship with them to have the shared experience, community
Dress up
Identification (mirror stage, fantasy) and appropriation of characters, re-imagined for a queer audience
Fan made fiction surrounding the marketing and distribution of the film.
- 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 theirown 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).
fanatic loyalty
Thursday 1 May 2014
Fridays Lesson - Flipped Classroom
Dear Mr Dixon
I've set up a lesson for you to facilitate over the next 2 Fridays. This is an opportunity for the class to teach you what the exam is about.
See the last 2 posts on the blog. We will run this as revision seminars for the rest of the Module where they teach you about the exam content a a revision presentation format - the class will decide on how to conduct the revision session (trains, ven diagram, boxes - whichever they think is suitable from what you suggest and explain these are), they supply the content and assess you using the blog.
The class need to assess your learning with an assessment by the end of the Module, applying the above to the Case Studies
Week 1 is the presentations based on the Oppositional Gazes
Those presenting:
Danica
Layla
Jasmine
Luke
Peter
By the end of next week the things they need to teach you and apply to our Case Studies over the next
Next Week: Mr Dixons learning outcomes are:
1. What is Psychoanalysis and how is it applied to Film Criticism
2. How does it apply to our Case Study texts Black Swan & Clockwork Orange?
3. What is the Mirror Stage and how does it apply to the texts - key scenes - what meaning do these critical approaches reveal about message of the film or relationships between characters?
4. What has the above got to do with gender - why significant?
5. What is significant about the Male Gaze to the above?
6. What are oppositional GAzes?
7. What different reading do they offer from the students own Case Study: START HERE AND ASK DAVID AND MARTIN & BEX - they presented on BLACK GAZE & FEMALE GAZE.
8 Why are we looking at 3 different texts? Over time?
You will need to find a way of doing this to effectively teach Mr Dixon's (keep his attention and meet his learning style) - not just "chalk and talk" - that does not mean you cannot discuss. Each student will be involved and take a different area.
Is this okay with everyone?
I've set up a lesson for you to facilitate over the next 2 Fridays. This is an opportunity for the class to teach you what the exam is about.
See the last 2 posts on the blog. We will run this as revision seminars for the rest of the Module where they teach you about the exam content a a revision presentation format - the class will decide on how to conduct the revision session (trains, ven diagram, boxes - whichever they think is suitable from what you suggest and explain these are), they supply the content and assess you using the blog.
The class need to assess your learning with an assessment by the end of the Module, applying the above to the Case Studies
Week 1 is the presentations based on the Oppositional Gazes
Those presenting:
Danica
Layla
Jasmine
Luke
Peter
By the end of next week the things they need to teach you and apply to our Case Studies over the next
Next Week: Mr Dixons learning outcomes are:
1. What is Psychoanalysis and how is it applied to Film Criticism
2. How does it apply to our Case Study texts Black Swan & Clockwork Orange?
3. What is the Mirror Stage and how does it apply to the texts - key scenes - what meaning do these critical approaches reveal about message of the film or relationships between characters?
4. What has the above got to do with gender - why significant?
5. What is significant about the Male Gaze to the above?
6. What are oppositional GAzes?
7. What different reading do they offer from the students own Case Study: START HERE AND ASK DAVID AND MARTIN & BEX - they presented on BLACK GAZE & FEMALE GAZE.
8 Why are we looking at 3 different texts? Over time?
You will need to find a way of doing this to effectively teach Mr Dixon's (keep his attention and meet his learning style) - not just "chalk and talk" - that does not mean you cannot discuss. Each student will be involved and take a different area.
Is this okay with everyone?
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