Revision: representation, historical contexts and Jungle Cruise
In this session, we prepped a plan to the representation unseen question in C1A. I encourage you to check this out, and then to complete your own response to the question under timed conditions. 30 marks is one hour, or 75 minutes for students with extra time
How do historical contexts affect the representation of issues? Make reference to Kiss of the Vampire and the poster for Jungle Cruise (2021)
Issues
- Power
- Sexism
- Horror
- Inequality
- Racism
Media language - Jungle Cruise
- Hierarchy of characters and importance through size
- Atypical representations of men and women
- MES of costume
- Buttoned up safari shirt
- Non-sexualised representations
- Low key and high key lighting creates a binary opposition
- Makeup of Blunt is subtle
- Makeup of villain is more extreme and exotic. Another binary opposition
- Binary opposition between men and women
- MES of Johnson's extremely muscular physique
- MS emphasises binary opp between men and women
- Low angle shot demonstrates power f the main characters
- Binary opposition between civilisation and wilderness
- American vs non-American
- MES of painted composition presents a classic mode of address
- Tomboy, atypical representation
Kiss of the Vampire - Media language
- Low angle shot connotes power
- MES of character levels, hierarchy
- Low key lighting, conventional of horror films
- Dark colours, night, threatening themes
- Light vs dark
- Innocence and corruption
- Sexual connotations
- Suits vs dresses
- Atypical sexualisation of men
- Typical sexualisation of women - skin-tight dresses
Paragraphs
- Sexist representations in KOTV
- Atypical representations of women in Jungle Cruise
- Gender roles in KOTV - conforms to Van zoonen's theory
- Gender roles in Jungle Cruise - challenges van zoonen's theory
- Postcolonial theory - KOTV, British people in foreign country
- Postcolonial theory - Jungle cruise, Americans in a foreign country
