Topic Themes
Revise: Loneliness
Alienation
Isolation
Solitude
Repression
The American Dream
Contexts
The Cold War
Shown where and how?
9/11/Terrorism
Pandemics Bioethics Blaxploitation Film
Woodstock and the 60’s
Germ warfare
Science
Concepts
Capitalism
Marxism
Xenophobia
Utopia
Dystopia
‘Otherness’
Darwinism – Survival of the most able to adapt Creationism – Adam and Eve/Eden Religion
Representatio n–
Star
Masculinity
Physique
Role/Function Skills/Abilities
Class
Costume/Dress Codes
Occupation
Whiteness Ethnicity
Stereotypes
Jim Crow – 1890 theatre
Wille Best – blackface, The Minstrel Show Stephin’ Fetchit, Sleep n’ Eat WASP
Representatio n – Femininity
Personal qualities
Associative traits/roles
Occupation
Princess? (Proppian reward? Stereotypes
Blaxploitation
Place Los Angeles
the 60s
Neville’s House
Air-born disease
New York -
2009-2012
Sky-line
Air-born disease
Sleeper cells
Genre Fr: Type/Category Sub-genre/s
Action Film Hybridity
Post-Modernism Intertextuality Neale: genre relies on intertextual relay Homage
Genre codes Mise-en-scene codes Genre conventions
Familiar, expected, repeated or static Difference, unexpected, different or dynamic
Narrative
Structure –paradigms Tzvetan Todorov
Chronology
Resolution
Open/Closed 窶田losure
Roland Barthes
Action Codes
Enigma Codes or Hematic Codes Visual or aural codes (semic codes) Referential Codes
Symbolic Codes
Narrator Narration Narrational devices Claude LﾃｨviStrauss
Binary-Oppositions