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Themes
Context
Representa0on
KEY for mindmap:
Use this to help remind you of the themes, representa0on and context
Remember the: THEME is also the your paragraph’s POINT REPRESENTATION is the paragraph’s EXAMPLE CONTEXT is also your paragraph’s EXPLANATION
For NBK you can make one for yourself…
Please read big yellow slide – it has an important point about CONTEXT on it
ANTI‐AUTHORITY & LAW AND ORDER
VIOLENCE & MEDIA
AMERICAN DREAM & FAMILY
ROMANCE & GENDER
Bonnie &
Clyde
Context – feminism and no more Hays Code
Context – Young / Hippies reject consumerism as part of American Dream. And reject tradi0onal family way of life for ‘communes’ & ‘free love’
Context – Vietnam, police violence & race riots TV show this violence night a[er night in American homes
RepresentaDon ‐ very violent for its 0me (most violent film ever at 0me of release) ‐ lots of blood shed & people suffering as they die ‐ very violent ending ‐ odd mixture of comedy and violence
RepresentaDon – B&C are the rebellious youngsters who want to live differently and fight against authority (just like hippies and feminists in 60s USA) They are shown as carefree and stylish and having fun‐ whereas police/bankers are shown as dull and without passion (e.g. texas ranger)
RepresentaDon B&C lead a way of life that does not value money. They live like a commune – moving around & not being like a tradi0onal family
RepresentaDon – overly sexual femininity and sexuality (for the 0me) e.g. coke bocle and gun, naked Bonnie. Strong female character who is in control of her life &chooses to leave the expected ‘housewife’ / ‘waitress’ way of life (although she craves to secle down later in the film)
Context ‐ Feminism An0‐war demos Free speech Civil rights Hippies
In B&C a major part of the context is that the scripwriters and Warren Beacy have a specific vision for their film: unconvenDonal & alternaDve/rebellious, French New Wave influenced, specifically ‘about’ the 1960s – i.e. about freedom, anD‐authority, young carefree aXtudes in opposiDon to the ‘establishment’ – and an expression of how the violence in the 60s (on TV and in reality) should be shown in films in a more ‘realisDc’ way than previous films
Whereas in the case of NBK the film is a specific vision of the director ‐ in which he chooses to express his views on the way violence is depicted in the 1990s: His film is an a\empt to comment on how violence has become entertainment – in films but even more so on Television. News and ‘reality’ shows such as ‘cops’ and also the conDnuing fascinaDon of the media with real‐life violence ‐ OJ Simpson chase & trial, Waco, Menendez trial, Rodney King beaDng and so on. Society is increasingly concerned with the effects of this media violence on real people – e.g. spate of shooDngs in schools by young people Oliver Stone belives his film is about the media depicDon of violence But maybe he ends up making a film that just shows violence in the same way as what he is criDcising?
Violence Media
American Dream Family
An0‐authority Law and Order
Romance Gender
Natural Born Killers
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