Representation - Riptide Context Flashcards
Who released Riptide?
Vance joy, an Australian singer and songwriter
Who is the song influenced by?
Two directors: Sergei Eisenstein and Wes Anderson
What is the main ideology of Riptide?
To be a tribute towards great directors and creators of the media, by including the stereotypical and conventional representation of femininity.
How are women presented throughout the video?
Submissive and weak, objects for the pleasure of the male audience.
What is Riptide referred to as?
Riptide is a pastiche towards many intertextual references such as the work of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.
What is Pastiche?
An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period. (Weird/dreamlike)
What is the music video’s main intertextual reference?
The film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
These two pieces of media have similar thematic respects such as what?
Violence to women and an emphasis on scopophilia.
What scene from Un Chien Andalou can be linked to Riptide?
The eye-cutting scene can be linked closely to the violent image of the knife cutting the woman’s hand.
This text possesses a what kind of approach to the narrative?
A dream-like approach to the narrative, displayed through the overwhelming sense of surrealism.
What could the camera perspective be described as?
Voyeuristic conforming to the male gaze. (Women are sexual objects/objectification)
What does the text often focus on?
It is often surreal, focusing on style over content.
This is visible through sudden shocking scenes to disorient the audience.
Also via unrelated scenes/images edited back to back, provoking a constant sense of impending threat.
Riptide appears to be a pastiche of the work of contemporary film director Wes Anderson due to the presence of what?
Symmetrical Framing, Recurring character types, Shot preference (slow motion, tracking shots, whip pans, visual displays of dialogue) and strong colour palettes to reflect emotional/mood content
