La La Land Flashcards
Who is the film directed by?
The film is directed by Damien Chazelle.
Who stars in the film?
The film stars Emma Stone as Mia, Ryan Gosling as Seb and John Legend as Keith.
What is the Uses And Gratifications audience theory?
The audience watches a film for four different reasons.
- Information.
- Personal Identity.
- Social Integration.
- Entertainment.
La La Land Uses And Gratification.
Entertainment - The film is primarily an escapist film set in the musical genre. The film contains a love story and multiple songs that entertain the audience.
Social Integration - The film contains many notable and iconic scenes that the audience would talk about after seeing the film. For example, the ending scene would cause discussion due to the emotional impact and the contemporary ending.
What is the Stuart Hall The Reception Theory?
Preferred reading - They consume the text as the Producer intended them to.
Oppositional reading - The audience entirely rejects the ideology that is contained within the text.
La La Land The Reception Theory.
Preferred reading - The audience may like the film because it is an entertaining genre film that provides escapism. Scenes such as the song scenes are examples of this.
Oppositional reading - The audience may dislike the film because they think the film contains white-washing and mansplaining. The character Seb is an example of both of these due to his link to jazz and how he explains everything to Mia.
