Media Representations
Who is being represented?-Teenage males and females from a white middleclass/suburban background.
In what way?-The teenage males are represented with raging hormones and full of testosterone additionally knowledgeable of technology and gadgets. The teenage females are represented through male personas both the characters and the directors point of view. They are represented as eye/sex candy. They displayed to the audience as sexual pleasures for the male.
By whom?-Both the director and the persona (Stiffler) portray the females as “sluts” as the character Stiffler makes a soft porn movies without the teenage girls knowing.
Why is the subject being represented in this way?-The females are represented in fetishist way as this enforces the male gaze and attract male audiences; to fulfil male fantasies.
Is the representation fair and accurate?-The representation of females in American Pie: Band Camp mostly unfair as all females are seen wearing tight skimpy band clothes that enhance their bodily features also some of them are represented as sexual deviants who enjoy it. However this to reinforce the theory of the male gaze.
Media Languages and Forms
What are the non-verbal structures of meaning in the text (e.g. gesture, facial expression, positional communication, clothing, props etc)?-The brass instrument stuck to a part of Stiffler’s body connotes the sexual tension and high testosterone in male teenagers and are experimental. Additionally a small brass intrument which is in a metal container which is seen as a vibrator in the beginning by Stiffler, this creates the idea in the audiences mind all even good "bandee" girls are bad and "slutty"
What is the significance of mise-en-scene/sets/settings?-The setting is a band camp called tall oaks, basically in the woods. The significance of the setting is to create a scenic and still atmosphere which can be disrupted by young hormonal teenagers.
What work is being done by the sound track/commentary/language of the text?-The soundtrack helps create a certain mood, for example when stifflerin the beginning is demolishing the bands instrument the music used is by sum 41 fast pace music is used excite the audience and create sense of male dominance.
What are the dominant images and iconography, and what is their relevance to the major themes of the text?-The dominant image in the text are when Stiffler is recording the teenage girls in the shower room, this exemplifies even though the girls are in a safe environment form guys they are being watched by Stiffler and lose their privacy.
What sound and visual techniques are used to convey meaning (e.g. camera positioning, editing; the ways that images and sounds are combined to convey meaning)?-The high camera angle positioned in women shower room connote that they vulnerable and weak to men or Stiffler the spy/observer or voyeur.
Monday, 10 September 2007
Research Proposal
· Title-Has the Hollywood Film industry subverted from the stereotypical sexual representation of women, with particular reference to “American Pie: Band Camp” by Steve Rash (2005)?
· Hypothesis-Women undertake the sexually objectified character role, reinforcing the representations of women as “eye candy”.
Migrain
· Mise en Scene-Teenage life in suburbia and band camp. Females are perceived as passive characters as they are recorded by Stiffler for a soft porn film.
· Ideologies-Alters the views of teenagers from the American suburbs, as they’re idealised as sexually perverted.
· Genre-Teenage comedy, portrayal of teenagers at school and home.
· Representations-Teenage females are represented as sexual objects and Stiffler as a typical male teenager fuelled by sexual hormones.
· Audience-Targeted at teenagers from a c1/c2 socio economic group as the teenage audience can relate to the behaviour of characters in the movie. The movie glorifies male masculinity and women’s good looks.
· Narrative-Follow Todorov’s theory as the movie has a linear narrative and ends with a typical “Hollywood Ending”.
Wider Context
· The younger women are beautiful in the movie relating to societies needs of looking good and perfect which is enforced by celebrities.
· The movie is presented to the audience in a patriarchal society as women are being recorded Stiffler without them knowing, which conflicts against feminist rights and equal rights.
· Women are treated as possessions and are seen as something for men’s pleasures.
Theorists
· Laura Mulvey-Suggests that there were two distinct modes of the male gaze of this era: “voyeuristic” (i.e. seeing women as ‘Madonna’s’) and “fetishist” (i.e. seeing women as ‘whores’). Mulvey believed that classical Hollywood cinema reflected and shaped the “patriarchal order”, the perspective of her writing actually remained within that very heterosexual order.
Other Texts
· American pie sequel by Paul Wietz & Chris Wietz (1999 onwards)
· Not Another Teenage Movie by Joe Gallen (2001)
· Road Trip by Todd Phillips (2000)
· 40 Days and 40 Nights by Michael Lehmann (2002)
· That 70’s Show by Mark Brazill, Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner (1998-2006)
· Friday by F.Gary Gray (1995)
· Title-Has the Hollywood Film industry subverted from the stereotypical sexual representation of women, with particular reference to “American Pie: Band Camp” by Steve Rash (2005)?
· Hypothesis-Women undertake the sexually objectified character role, reinforcing the representations of women as “eye candy”.
Migrain
· Mise en Scene-Teenage life in suburbia and band camp. Females are perceived as passive characters as they are recorded by Stiffler for a soft porn film.
· Ideologies-Alters the views of teenagers from the American suburbs, as they’re idealised as sexually perverted.
· Genre-Teenage comedy, portrayal of teenagers at school and home.
· Representations-Teenage females are represented as sexual objects and Stiffler as a typical male teenager fuelled by sexual hormones.
· Audience-Targeted at teenagers from a c1/c2 socio economic group as the teenage audience can relate to the behaviour of characters in the movie. The movie glorifies male masculinity and women’s good looks.
· Narrative-Follow Todorov’s theory as the movie has a linear narrative and ends with a typical “Hollywood Ending”.
Wider Context
· The younger women are beautiful in the movie relating to societies needs of looking good and perfect which is enforced by celebrities.
· The movie is presented to the audience in a patriarchal society as women are being recorded Stiffler without them knowing, which conflicts against feminist rights and equal rights.
· Women are treated as possessions and are seen as something for men’s pleasures.
Theorists
· Laura Mulvey-Suggests that there were two distinct modes of the male gaze of this era: “voyeuristic” (i.e. seeing women as ‘Madonna’s’) and “fetishist” (i.e. seeing women as ‘whores’). Mulvey believed that classical Hollywood cinema reflected and shaped the “patriarchal order”, the perspective of her writing actually remained within that very heterosexual order.
Other Texts
· American pie sequel by Paul Wietz & Chris Wietz (1999 onwards)
· Not Another Teenage Movie by Joe Gallen (2001)
· Road Trip by Todd Phillips (2000)
· 40 Days and 40 Nights by Michael Lehmann (2002)
· That 70’s Show by Mark Brazill, Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner (1998-2006)
· Friday by F.Gary Gray (1995)
Thursday, 12 July 2007
THE REVIEWS
you liked the others, you'll enjoy this slice!, 30 December 2005
Author: toadfan from United States
I must say I like all the American Pie movies, but without the original cast I was a bit skeptical. This movie has all the crude humor and laughs that the others had. I enjoyed the character of Matt Stifler although I think they could have gone even farther with the making of the videos. Overall a very good teen flick that anyone can enjoy. I liked this better than most comedies lately and I hope that Matt and Elyse can return in "American Family" since Michelle was pregnant in this one. I think that would be a great way to end the series. I'm hoping that people give this movie a chance and realize that although the Stifler character is over the top, the movie does send a message. It's a funny and sometimes disgusting way to do so but definitely a worthy one indeed.
BY IMDB.COM
Stiffler junior rules the roost here and he is like his brother in more ways than one. Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck) actually dotes on his brother’s notoriety much to the displeasure of everyone else around him. Drastic actions mean drastic measures. So school councillor, Chuck the ‘Sherman-ator’ (Chris Owen), is called into quick action. The rude, crude, wild, Stiffy junior is off to band camp to make amends or the jock will not see another football game. And perhaps he will take some handy spy-cams with him… just for some bandie fun.
Add in lots of crude humour, hints at nudity, and a few musical instruments in places that they should not be blown from and that about sums up what is in store for the Pie fan viewer.
There was this one time, at band camp…
The movie is actually funny in many places, one can’t help get the giggles at the odd vomit scene or when band instruments are dowsed with pepper spray, I guess this appeals to the bad kid in all of us. The big difference here, apart from the lack of any of the creative team behind the previous outings, is that there is no straight guy for Stiffler to play off against. In the hugely amusing pervious parts, it was Jim’s story, and we laughed and sympathised at his misfortunes that befell him, with the comic relief coming in from the one and only Stiffmeiseter. Here the two characters have been welded together and to mixed results. Some credit must be given to new-comer Hilgenbrinck for putting on a carbon copy performance that Seann William Scott made so much his own as big brother Steve, but it feels just that – a copy. So with no Jim around, we just have the bandies to feel sorry for. And then it gets so very trite when we see there really is a nice guy in Matt, the geeks are actually closet cool, and that love will win the day. Mr. Levenstein (Levy) as camp MACRO can’t even save the flick; his role seems to be only to act as a surrogate dad to the frantic testosterone fuelled fish out of water in the land of the bandies.
For those discerning parents, this is one movie that its bark is much worse than its bite. It promises a smorgasbord of naked beauties and we get to see Matt’s backside more than anything else, nudity and sex are very limited and for the most only hinted or implied… the language on the other hand is a full frontal assault and the reason for its 15 certificate.
The DVD has a few goodies in store. We have around 15 minutes of deleted scenes and outtakes, which prove amusing enough and would have given a more rounded story and deeper characterisations if included. 'Band Camp Dirty Diary' is the best of the batch; the cast take around their own camcorders and play around off set, with more of Hilgenbrinck’s ass on show. As for the remainder, 'Band Camp's Dirty Secrets (Set Tour)’, 'Secret RoverCam Footage' and 'Baby Got Back Music Video', again gives more of a tease rather than showing off the goods…. perhaps that last phrase sums up this release in general.
by Monsterandcritics
The movie is a spin off of the trilogy, it doesn't have any of the previous teen characters except for sherman. The movie is about Stifler's younger brother Matt who wants to join the family business (porn), he gets the perfect oppurtunity at band camp.
by jas
you liked the others, you'll enjoy this slice!, 30 December 2005
Author: toadfan from United States
I must say I like all the American Pie movies, but without the original cast I was a bit skeptical. This movie has all the crude humor and laughs that the others had. I enjoyed the character of Matt Stifler although I think they could have gone even farther with the making of the videos. Overall a very good teen flick that anyone can enjoy. I liked this better than most comedies lately and I hope that Matt and Elyse can return in "American Family" since Michelle was pregnant in this one. I think that would be a great way to end the series. I'm hoping that people give this movie a chance and realize that although the Stifler character is over the top, the movie does send a message. It's a funny and sometimes disgusting way to do so but definitely a worthy one indeed.
BY IMDB.COM
Stiffler junior rules the roost here and he is like his brother in more ways than one. Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck) actually dotes on his brother’s notoriety much to the displeasure of everyone else around him. Drastic actions mean drastic measures. So school councillor, Chuck the ‘Sherman-ator’ (Chris Owen), is called into quick action. The rude, crude, wild, Stiffy junior is off to band camp to make amends or the jock will not see another football game. And perhaps he will take some handy spy-cams with him… just for some bandie fun.
Add in lots of crude humour, hints at nudity, and a few musical instruments in places that they should not be blown from and that about sums up what is in store for the Pie fan viewer.
There was this one time, at band camp…
The movie is actually funny in many places, one can’t help get the giggles at the odd vomit scene or when band instruments are dowsed with pepper spray, I guess this appeals to the bad kid in all of us. The big difference here, apart from the lack of any of the creative team behind the previous outings, is that there is no straight guy for Stiffler to play off against. In the hugely amusing pervious parts, it was Jim’s story, and we laughed and sympathised at his misfortunes that befell him, with the comic relief coming in from the one and only Stiffmeiseter. Here the two characters have been welded together and to mixed results. Some credit must be given to new-comer Hilgenbrinck for putting on a carbon copy performance that Seann William Scott made so much his own as big brother Steve, but it feels just that – a copy. So with no Jim around, we just have the bandies to feel sorry for. And then it gets so very trite when we see there really is a nice guy in Matt, the geeks are actually closet cool, and that love will win the day. Mr. Levenstein (Levy) as camp MACRO can’t even save the flick; his role seems to be only to act as a surrogate dad to the frantic testosterone fuelled fish out of water in the land of the bandies.
For those discerning parents, this is one movie that its bark is much worse than its bite. It promises a smorgasbord of naked beauties and we get to see Matt’s backside more than anything else, nudity and sex are very limited and for the most only hinted or implied… the language on the other hand is a full frontal assault and the reason for its 15 certificate.
The DVD has a few goodies in store. We have around 15 minutes of deleted scenes and outtakes, which prove amusing enough and would have given a more rounded story and deeper characterisations if included. 'Band Camp Dirty Diary' is the best of the batch; the cast take around their own camcorders and play around off set, with more of Hilgenbrinck’s ass on show. As for the remainder, 'Band Camp's Dirty Secrets (Set Tour)’, 'Secret RoverCam Footage' and 'Baby Got Back Music Video', again gives more of a tease rather than showing off the goods…. perhaps that last phrase sums up this release in general.
by Monsterandcritics
The movie is a spin off of the trilogy, it doesn't have any of the previous teen characters except for sherman. The movie is about Stifler's younger brother Matt who wants to join the family business (porn), he gets the perfect oppurtunity at band camp.
by jas
THE FRONT COVERTHE WOMEN IS CUT OFF THE FRONT COVER CONNOTING THAT SHE IS PASSIVE CHARACTER AND INFERIOR AS THERE ARE 4 MALES TO 3 WOMEN ON THE COVER EMPHASISING THE PATRIARACHAL SOCIETY. FURTHERMORE THE WOMEN ARE WEARNG TIGHT CLOTHES AND 2 OF THEM ARE BLONDE, REINFORCING THE IDEOLOGIES OF "BLONDE BIMBO'S". ADDITIONALLY THE BLONDE WOMEN IS HOLDING A FLUTE WHICH SYMBOLISES THE PHALLIC. THE WOMEN ARE THERE FOR THE MALE GAZE.
THE FEMALE IS HOLDING A PHALLIC SYMBOL, MALE DOMINANCE.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO STIFFLER AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO WISH TO STICK A PART OF THEIR BODY IN A MSICAL INSTRUMENT
THE EFFECT OF THE MALE GAZE, WOMEN ARE WEARING BAKINI'S AND ONLY IN THE POOL FOR MALE PLEASURES NOT TO DRIVE THE NARRATIVE.
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