Riptide Flashcards
Who sings Riptide?
Australian singer songwriter Vance Joy
How does the representation of women relate to popular film genres?
Cultural differences references to the film industry + outdated representations of femininity…typical codes + conventions associated with horror/western films - women in presented as weak/submissive in need of male protection
What does the MV take influence from?
Sergei Eisenstein + Wes Anderson
Sergei Eisenstein
Selection of unrelated images used to construct new meaning combined with the lyrics
Wes Anderson
Use of symmetry, shot preferences, recurring characters, presence of strong colour palette to reflect emotional mood content
Intellectual Montage
Combines images that draw on intellectual meaning - metaphor
Pastiche
Artistic work in style that imitates that of another work - weird/dream like
Scopophilia/voyeurism
Sexual pleasure derived chiefly from watching others when they’re naked/engaged in sexual activity
Surrealism
Reflects something out of the ordinary
How does RT take inspiration from Un Chien Andalou?
Luis Bunuel + Salvador Dali = film auteurs - 1929 film eye cutting scene compared to hand stabbing scene in RT - both possess dream like logic expressed through surrealism feuled by humans obsession with violence
Intertextual references
Main reference = Un Chien Andalou…violence towards women (scopophilia) through camera perspective being voyeuristic conforming to male gaze…text = surreal focuses on style over content - sudden shocking scenes disorient audience + impending threat…pastiche - Wes Anderson through symmetry slow motion etc
Women objectified
1- mid shot with woman undressing with back to camera + disembodied sections of women’s bodies (bare feet running away + hands dragged out of shot) 2- over sexualised/watched camera lingers + men gazing through binoculars etc 3- lip sync section at first she has immaculate makeup = social norms
Women misogynised
Beautiful women in peril - seen as passive victims of misogyny (tied to a tree/stabbed with knife)
How are women subjected to violence in RT?
Hand stabbed + lip syncing woman clutches own neck with blood on her hand - normalises violence reflecting typical issues that women face
Women challenge patriarchal oppression in RT
Woman tied up to tree escaping + woman in graveyard scene directing her male counterparts where to go/what to look at
Women challenging scopophilia in RT
Seen gazing themselves - binoculars whilst standing on house balcony
Women “in control of their beauty” challenged in RT
Lip sync - increasingly dishevelled + expressions more vacant + sings “the words wrong” - challenges that women supposed to appear immaculate + within emotional control of their facilities + hints at decay of relationship
Theory of Identity - David Gauntlett
Exploration how audiences can identify their role in society through the power of media
Theory of Identity in RT
Female consumers can choose which aspects of many active + passive mediated roles to adopt with their own characteristics - offers range of personalities to consume
How is RT criticised which links to theory of identity?
RT promotes this idea of the perfect body that puts pressure on young girls
Feminist Theory - bell hook
Importance of all female races learning to conform with one another…women of colour must learn to “confront their interest of white supremacist beliefs” lead to self hate…women of colour must “learn about their culture to share knowledge and skills to gain strength from their diversity”
How is hooks contradicted in RT?
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression as a contradiction as women become liberated/free themselves from abusive relationships
