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Trainspotting Context Flashcards

1
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Political

How long was the conservative governments jurisdiction

Thatcher not Prime Minister by 1990

A

20 years

1979-1997

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2
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Political

When did the AIDs epidemic start

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1981

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3
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Political

When did Poll Tax start and end

For Scotland

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1989-1991

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4
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Political

How long was New Labours jurisdiction

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13 years

1997-2010

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5
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Institutional

Why was Channel 4 Films (Film4) the financer

giving £1.5 million

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their films subject matter was often deemed contreversial and left field

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6
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What did privitisation cause

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the closure of traditional industries (coal mining, car manufacturing)

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7
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How many were unemployed by 1983

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3.6 million

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8
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What’s special about Edinburgh

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Produced most of the worlds opiate drugs

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9
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What is the ‘Scottish Effect’

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15% mortality rate

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10
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What did Irvine Welsh say about the government

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“The Governments creating the demand”

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11
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How was Generation X described

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Disillusioned with life, malaise

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12
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What is neo-marxism

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a belief that extended the marxist socialist ideologies that instead of rejecting capitalism, we have to recognise and work along side it

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13
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What is a modular aesthetic

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mini episodes

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14
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generic formulas

What make up a drug film

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dream like hallucinatory style, effects of drug taking on onself and, their family and friends

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generic formulas

What make up a social underclass film

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focus on lower class, gloomy/grunge aesthetic, focus on political movements and its affect on people, similar (real life) locations and costumes, character arcs, realist aesthetic, government is the villain

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Narrative devices

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in media res, V/O, binary opposition, flshbacks/forwards, editing, soundtrack

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17
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where is Trainspotting shot

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highrise flats in Leith, Edinburgh

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18
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why was Leith, Edinburgh chosen as Trainspotting location

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Leith highlights a forgotten Scottish underclass that lived in extreme poverty and social deprivation

19
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what is a formalist narrative

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where it is clear that the spectator is watching a made up story

20
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how does Renton’s selfish act effect the course of narratives

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Causes Tommy’s death by stealing his sex tape and giving his heroin

21
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from whose perspective is Trainspotting filmed from

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Renton, a white male Scottish perspective

22
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how are the responsibilities of Gen X represented in Trainspotting

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Gen X is unable to give life to a new generation

23
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who juxtaposes the typical representations of Gen X

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school girl Diane

24
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how do representations of Diane offer a generational difference

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  1. more in control of her sexuality and destiny
  2. represented as bright and intelligent
25
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how are Renton’s parents represented in Trainspotting

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Renton’s parents are caring and sympathetic, which contrasts normal social realist dramas where older people are out of touch and mean

26
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what is the predominant role of women in Trainspotting’s narrative

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largely love interests to the main protagonists

27
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who are the women in Trainspotting

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  1. Allison (baby Dawn’s mother)
  2. Gail (Spud’s girlfriend)
  3. Lizzy (Tommy’s girlfriend)
  4. Diane
28
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does Trainspotting offer any sexually shocking representations

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Renton has sex with a schoolgirl (Diane)

29
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what is the main message regarding intimacy in Trainspotting

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there is little human/human intimacy and is replaced by heroin

30
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what is the exposition

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the introduction of the main characters, genre, and setting

31
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what is the narrative agent

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the introduction of an incident or character which establishes the storyline

32
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what is problem/dilemma/enigma

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an event which affects the protagonists life

33
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what is the problem/development stage

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where tension is highest and the protagonist and antagonist meet

34
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what is the resolution

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the end of the film where stability is re-established

35
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why does Trainspotting deviate from the classic 5-point narrative structure

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represents the rejection of capitalism and mainstream views

36
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what is a restrictive narrative

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one where you only see and hear the prespective of one character (Renton in Trainspotting)

37
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what does Begbie represent

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Welsh wrote him as a repressed homosexual whose random acts of violence were motivated out of being outed

38
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how is the narrative divided in Trainspotting

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largely linear with a few flashbacks (creating alignment with Renton)

39
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why did Danny Boyle choose a modular aesthetic, and mainly linear narrative

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to represent the characters chaotic life and deviate from cinematic norms

40
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how does Renton’s characteristics reflect him being Gen X

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he is disillusioned and alienated with society, believing that heroin is just another commodity

41
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what does film theorist Patrick Phillips suggest about audiences and narrative shape

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audience gains pleasure from the narrative shape and often favour a positive resolution

42
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how does Trainspotting try and provide narrative shape for the spectator

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Renton moving to London seems like a resolution and start of a better life

43
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what are the negatives to applying an ideological critical approach

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  1. no contextual knowledge
  2. no use of film form
  3. no narrative devices/structure
  4. no personal response
44
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what could Trainspotting be better to study instead of an ideological critical approach

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  1. narrative
  2. context
  3. aesthetics of film form

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