Tuesday, 8 October 2013
HWK Gaze, Equilibrium and Reception theory
Media HWK
Equilibrium: Man of steel
1. Superman lives a normal life with his family as a baby.
2. The planet is destroyed and he is sent to earth.
3. Superman grows and find the man that destroyed his world.
4. Zod and superman battle it out for the Earths safety or destruction.
5. Superman wins and earth is returned to normal. superman finds a new life.
The theory of the male gaze
The gaze is the idea of how the audience view people in the way they are presented.
For feminists it can be seen in three ways.
• How men look at women.
• How women look at women.
• How women look at themselves.
The picture below is a typical example of the male gaze, a simple way of putting is that if I played the actual footage of the film (transformers) most people would not be able to answer a simple question like what colour is the car because they are too busy looking at the woman.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKL-fn3FeBjU0rd58PHdP1hCQQB2mQey4WdaT3njHlqMOSzFSc791X6CFH7VzaMWItejNW3fvyd7DVPeUTeZ2HSad7Cvjn2CfC7IaTxUxyZSDSf-r-d2tmC7LMz6ZkK9wG6vnqs_VxPhw/s1600/megan-fox-transformers.jpg
Reception theory (Stuart hall, 1980).
In films the director may using something that has more than one meaning, like a object or something that is said.
A good example would be the ending of the film Forrest Gump when you see the feather floating away.
http://www.speakinggump.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Feather_Floats_Off_At_Movies_End-300x204.jpg
The feather in forest Gump can be seen in many ways:
• Some people may think that it’s how Forrest Gump has accepted his wife’s death and is now at peace.
• Others may see it as Forrest’s way of look at life. Everything happens accidently for a purpose.
• Another way to look at it is how he started the journey with the feather and now that his story has been heard his journey is over.
The director’s way of portraying the symbol or text is the true meaning however people see symbols and text differently so that’s why there are many different views on one thing.
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Equilibrium:
ReplyDeleteWWW: You have successfully managed to incorporate Todorov’s narrative theory into a film of your choice, taking into account the various different stages of this theory.
EBI: You had used the appropriate headlines of stages in order to further show your knowledge of this theory.
SBT
Male Gaze:
ReplyDeleteWWW: Shown understanding of Mulvey’s theory through explanation of the theory in your own words and picking a suitable example from your own knowledge. The example you picked is a good one.
EBI: You had used your knowledge of camera shots and mise-en-scene to further explain the shot you chose. How is the woman presented on screen? How does she ‘grab’ the attention of the audience? Also, you need to go into further detail about how women are represented as ‘objects’ to the audience.
SBT
Reception theory:
ReplyDeleteWWW: You have used an example of how audiences can receive different meanings from a text depending on their own way of decoding symbols and texts.
EBI: You had explained what the theory is and the three different ways a member of the audience could decode a text. You also need to go into detail about WHY different audiences would take different meanings from a text. What factors could affect audience perception?
SBT