Representation

Representation

1. Laura Mulvey: S.W.A.R.M.

   • Scopophilia
   • Women making films
   • Audience identification
   • Representation of women
   • Male gaze

2. My representation

   • Woman is the protagonist/hero
     • Challenges most thriller representations
   • Often a passive victim
     • In my piece the female over powers the male character

3. Carol Clover: The final girl theory

   • 1. Femal has male qualities (represented as intellectual and not sexualised)
   • 2. Female over powers the male in the end
   • 3. Other women are killed but not the final girl

4. Richard Dyer

   • Representations tend to reinforce beliefs

5. Media language

   • Connotations used
     • Forests are often used in thrillers (parts of mine were shot in a dark forest
     • Red=blood, danger, fear, death (the leaves on the floor in my piece
       • (e.g. Casino or Cape Fear)

6. Stuart Hall

   • representations reflect a set of ideas and beliefs in society
     • (e.g. women are passive)

7. Tessa Perkins

   • Representations sometimes reflect something of the truth

8. Stanley Cohen

   • Representations create moral panics