Riptide Flashcards
Key scenes
- Singing woman
- Phallic scenes
- Whip pan sequence of woman being stared at
- Women as victims
“I was scared of pretty girls”
- Portraying a sexualised woman to be looked at - voyeurism
- Objectification of women
- All the women throughout the video fall into the traditional western patriarchal beauty standards
Women as victims
Consistently women are portrayed as victims - hegemonic gender roles
Victims to Hollywood
Victims to the patriarchy
Juxtaposition
(rhythm and lyrics)
- Between the upbeat rhythm and lyrics with dark imagery.
- Amplification of the lyrics because it twists them to have a new meaning.
Repetition of the Hands
- a symbol of fetish, how hands can generate both intense pain and pleasure
- wounded and severed hands - representation of castration anxiety
Directors
Basil and Gorun
Male hands
Active role, signifying a sense of control
eg. holding gun
Female hands
Passive role, signifying a victim
eg. stabbing
Stuart Hall (narratives)
- Riptide delivers a non traditional narrative, replacing linear narrative with a post modern narrative
- The deliberate attempt at separating the lyrics to the imagery will render the video unintelligible for most casual viewers
Postmodern attributes
- Favours disjuncture and rejects structuralism
- Polysemy - intellectual montage opens multiple interpretations
- Self reflexive - a comment on the objectification of women in Hollywood/ media
Repetition of image sequences
Creates disjuncture
genre conventions within this mv?
Deviates from typical indie genre conventions, instead has more conventions aligning with the horror genre.
type of music video
Conceptual music video (Goodwin) - rejection of narrative
- Designed to encode a sense of intrigue or uniqueness to the artist - not aligning with the mainstream
Stuart Hall
inequalities of power
Stereotypes - reducing women to a few minor characteristics
bell hooks
glamorous women are damaging to society, the damaging impact of the male gaze on women (visual metaphor)
