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)