Riptide

Question 1

Who sings Riptide?

Answer 1

Australian singer songwriter Vance Joy

Question 2

How does the representation of women relate to popular film genres?

Answer 2

Cultural differences references to the film industry + outdated representations of femininity…typical codes + conventions associated with horror/western films - women in presented as weak/submissive in need of male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

Question 3

What does the MV take influence from?

Answer 3

Sergei Eisenstein + Wes Anderson

Question 4

Sergei Eisenstein

Answer 4

Selection of unrelated images used to construct new meaning combined with the lyrics

Question 5

Wes Anderson

Answer 5

Use of symmetry, shot preferences, recurring characters, presence of strong colour palette to reflect emotional mood content

Question 6

Intellectual Montage

Answer 6

Combines images that draw on intellectual meaning - metaphor

Question 7

Pastiche

Answer 7

Artistic work in style that imitates that of another work - weird/dream like

Question 8

Scopophilia/voyeurism

Answer 8

Sexual pleasure derived chiefly from watching others when they’re naked/engaged in sexual activity

Question 9

Surrealism

Answer 9

Reflects something out of the ordinary

Question 10

How does RT take inspiration from Un Chien Andalou?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Intertextual references

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Women objectified

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Women misogynised

Answer 13

Beautiful women in peril - seen as passive victims of misogyny (tied to a tree/stabbed with knife)

Question 14

How are women subjected to violence in RT?

Answer 14

Hand stabbed + lip syncing woman clutches own neck with blood on her hand - normalises violence reflecting typical issues that women face

Question 15

Women challenge patriarchal oppression in RT

Answer 15

Woman tied up to tree escaping + woman in graveyard scene directing her male counterparts where to go/what to look at

Question 16

Women challenging scopophilia in RT

Answer 16

Seen gazing themselves - binoculars whilst standing on house balcony

Question 17

Women “in control of their beauty” challenged in RT

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Theory of Identity - David Gauntlett

Answer 18

Exploration how audiences can identify their role in society through the power of media

Question 19

Theory of Identity in RT

Answer 19

Female consumers can choose which aspects of many active + passive mediated roles to adopt with their own characteristics - offers range of personalities to consume

Question 20

How is RT criticised which links to theory of identity?

Answer 20

RT promotes this idea of the perfect body that puts pressure on young girls

Question 21

Feminist Theory - bell hook

Answer 21

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”

Question 22

How is hooks contradicted in RT?

Answer 22

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression as a contradiction as women become liberated/free themselves from abusive relationships