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)
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