BFI film study
Simulacra- Imitation that seems more real than the things it's imitating.
Meta-narrative- A totalising cultural narrative, that organises thought and experiences into a a grand 'story' that makes sense of our lives.
bell hooks believes that traditionally masculine attitudes and behaviours aren't natural but rather constructed by a patriarchal society.
Van Zoonen believes that in a patriarchal society women bodies are sexualised and vulnerable whilst men's bodies are sexualised through power and strength.
Butler believes that gender is a performance: a repeated system of behaviours and costumes that are used so many times they may become seen as 'natural'
Barthes believes that signs we assume and denotations are actually 'dominant connotations' that hide ideologies.
Constructing and performing gender: "gender becomes a set of connotations that have become naturalized." Gender roles are constructed, men and women are victimised from a patriarchal society.
Authors 'encode' their work with meaning. Audiences often do not decode meanings the way a texts creator intended, same from negotiated or even oppositional meanings.
2) Write a one-sentence summary of the ideas of the theorists Matthew Daintrey-Hall covered (you can use your notes from task 1 here if relevant):
Saussure: He saw society as a system of institution and social norms that form a collective system that provides conditions for meaning-making and hence decisions and actions for individuals.
Barthes: Barthes believes that signs we assume and denotations are actually 'dominant connotations' that hide ideologies.
Stuart Hall: Hall says that the audience members adopt one of the following three positions when they decode the text:Dominant, or Preferred Reading, Oppositional Reading and Negotiated Reading
bell hooks: bell hooks believes that traditionally masculine attitudes and behaviours aren't natural but rather constructed by a patriarchal society.
Liesbet van Zoonen: Van Zoonen believes that in a patriarchal society women bodies are sexualised and vulnerable whilst men's bodies are sexualised through power and strength.
Judith Butler: Butler believes that gender is a performance: a repeated system of behaviours and costumes that are used so many times they may become seen as 'natural'
Lyotard: Lyotard believes a totalising cultural narrative, that organises thought and experiences into a 'grand 'story' that makes sense of our lives.
Baudrillard: Hyperreality – a condition in which ‘reality’ has been replaced by simulacra.”
Simulacra- Imitation that seems more real than the things it's imitating.
Meta-narrative- A totalising cultural narrative, that organises thought and experiences into a a grand 'story' that makes sense of our lives.
bell hooks believes that traditionally masculine attitudes and behaviours aren't natural but rather constructed by a patriarchal society.
Van Zoonen believes that in a patriarchal society women bodies are sexualised and vulnerable whilst men's bodies are sexualised through power and strength.
Butler believes that gender is a performance: a repeated system of behaviours and costumes that are used so many times they may become seen as 'natural'
Barthes believes that signs we assume and denotations are actually 'dominant connotations' that hide ideologies.
Constructing and performing gender: "gender becomes a set of connotations that have become naturalized." Gender roles are constructed, men and women are victimised from a patriarchal society.
Authors 'encode' their work with meaning. Audiences often do not decode meanings the way a texts creator intended, same from negotiated or even oppositional meanings.
2) Write a one-sentence summary of the ideas of the theorists Matthew Daintrey-Hall covered (you can use your notes from task 1 here if relevant):
Saussure: He saw society as a system of institution and social norms that form a collective system that provides conditions for meaning-making and hence decisions and actions for individuals.
Barthes: Barthes believes that signs we assume and denotations are actually 'dominant connotations' that hide ideologies.
Stuart Hall: Hall says that the audience members adopt one of the following three positions when they decode the text:Dominant, or Preferred Reading, Oppositional Reading and Negotiated Reading
bell hooks: bell hooks believes that traditionally masculine attitudes and behaviours aren't natural but rather constructed by a patriarchal society.
Liesbet van Zoonen: Van Zoonen believes that in a patriarchal society women bodies are sexualised and vulnerable whilst men's bodies are sexualised through power and strength.
Judith Butler: Butler believes that gender is a performance: a repeated system of behaviours and costumes that are used so many times they may become seen as 'natural'
Lyotard: Lyotard believes a totalising cultural narrative, that organises thought and experiences into a 'grand 'story' that makes sense of our lives.
Baudrillard: Hyperreality – a condition in which ‘reality’ has been replaced by simulacra.”
Simulacra- Imitation that seems more real than the things it's imitating.
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