Riptide Flashcards
Horror western thriller genres
Way in which women are represented as victims and methods in which some shots are framed, impending unease/anxiety
Sergei Eisentein Director
Selection of seemingly unrelated images and lyrics are used to construct new meaning, intellectual montage
Wes Anderson Director
Symmetry, shot preferences slow motion whip pans, recurring characters, strong colour palette to reflect emotional content
Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
Pastiche to the weird dream like approach. Logically unnerving yet vivid in nature, surprising reveals unexpected and juxtapositions.
Un Chien Andalou 1929
Infamous eye cutting scene compared to hand stabbing scene. Possess dream like logic expressed through surrealism which linger in creative subconscious fuelled by humankind’s obsession with violence/morbidity
Intertextual references
Un Chien Andalou, Violence towards women, Scorpophilia, Male gaze, Sudden shocking scenes to disorientate audience, constant sense of impending threat
Women presented as watched object
Shop with a woman with her back to the camera undressing out of swimming costume embodied isolated sections of women’s bodies bare feet running away feminine hand drugged up shot
Lip Sync sections
Woman singing into microphone immaculate make up framed and lit in a flattering way social norms of beauty glamour associated with mainstream media text
Women as victims
tied to tree stubbed with knife faithful of dentistry apparatus, seemingly assaulted.
relating to horror movies?
Subvert objectification
Woman tied to tree escapes from her bond and fleas metaphor for a suffocating relationship woman in the graveyard sea directing her male counterparts
Lip sync sections increasingly disheveled
make up smudges expression becomes more vacant as she sings the words wrong, challenges gender representation clear destruction of expectations. Also hinting at the decay of a relationship
