Thursday, 3 April 2014

How Is Gender Represented In The Extract?

How Is Gender Represented In The Extract?
- Mise-en-scene
- Camera
- Editing
- Sound

As Laura Mulvey (1975) said, women are "objects of desire for the characters within the screen story, and as erotic objects of sexual desire for the spectator within the auditorium." This is shown though the extract due to the female sexual representation through use of mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and also sound. The clip also presents two of the four types of masculinity as stated by R.W Connell (1995). It presents men as sexual desire and also goes against male stereotypes by presenting homosexual males. 

The clip starts with fast paced, up-beat, non-diegetic music that picks up when the main, blonde character comes into shot. This changes the importance of her and also presents her as a 

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