Selma Flashcards
Who is the director of Selma?
Ava Duvernay
What year was Selma made?
2014
What is Ideology?
Exploring what ideologies are conveyed by a film as well as those which inform it which may, for example, reveal that a film reinforces or challenges dominant beliefs and attitudes within a society
Key 5 things to include
Connotations of visual elements and sounds
Binary oppositions, both those contained in the narrative and those in the films use of formal elements
Implications of spectator positioning and address
Ideological perspectives appropriate to the text such as feminist or political perspective
Evaluation of the ideological approach to the film
What is Spectatorship?
Exploring how films address individual spectators through particular shots, editing, music and performance as well as narrative and genre to engage their interest and emotions
Bloody Sunday
On February 18th, white segregationists attacked a group of peaceful demonstrators in the town of Marion, Alabama.
An Alabama state trooper shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young African American demonstrator
A group of 600 set out from Selma on Sunday March 7th 1965 a day that would come to be known as “Bloody Sunday”
The state troopers buses wielding whips, nightsticks and tear gas
It was all captured on television enraging many Americans and drawing civil rights and religious leaders of all faiths to Selma in protest
