hollywood vs national representations of britishness
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Which image best represents Britishness today?
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Stuart Hall Reception Theory• Passive vs Active audience
• Reception Theory• Extending the concept of an active
audience in the 1980s and 1990s a lot of work was done on the way individuals received and interpreted a text, and how their individual circumstances (gender, class, age, ethnicity) affected their reading.
• This work was based on Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model of the relationship between text and audience - the text is encoded by the producer, and decoded by the reader, and there may be major differences between two different readings of the same code.
• Preferred/dominant
• Negotiated
• Oppositional
e.g. gender affects the reading: boys laugh at violence in a film but girls find it upsetting…
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Why do you think these images are so different?
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• LO: To understand some of the differences between Hollywood representations of Britishness and national representations of Britishness
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1. Can you name these films and their directors?2. Why do you think these images are so different?
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Take your film and make detailed notes on How has the fact that it is a national/hollywood film
affected the portrayal of Britishness?
• Consider institutional aspects: production company, director, distributor, producers, box office success
• Consider genre – mainstream or niche?• Star power – bankable stars?• Cultural content – British narrative?
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Write an informed response to How does the institution affect the portrayal of
Britishness?
• Consider institutional aspects: production company, director, distributor, producers, box office success
• Consider genre – mainstream or niche?• Star power – bankable stars?• Cultural content – British narrative?
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Peer assessHow does the institution affect the portrayal of
Britishness?
Media language
Structure
Answering the question
Theory
EVIDENCE (dates, names etc)
Comment on their work – strengths and weaknesses
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Both British, both female leads, both 2010…
• Homework: Research our 2 key texts - • Why do you think the lead female was
chosen for this role?
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Which question have we helped answer today?
• Media and Collective Identity • • How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and
ethnic / social / collective groups of people in different ways? • • How does contemporary representation compare to previous time
periods? • • What are the social implications of different media representations
of groups of people? • • To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?
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TYPES
• Archetype
• Stereotype
• Generic type
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Archetypes
• Hero• Villain• False Hero• Dispatcher• Princess• Donor• Helper
Propps seven spheres of Action
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Which type?
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Now look at your film
• How are the characters being represented in your film? How would you categorize them, which types?
• How is the type affected by the fact that it is a hollywood/national film?