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Ideology
A set of attitudes, beliefs and values held in common by a group of people and culturally reproduced within that community to sustain its particular way of life.
The major values and ideologies of the text is the dominance of women and their growing power
Institution
Any of the organisations responsible for the production, marketing, distribution or regulation of media texts.
The film is produced by ‘Sony Pictures Classics’
Kung Fu
Describes a genre of film, developed in the 1970’s around the martial arts, often produced in Hong Kong and associated with the actor/director Bruce Lee.
There are elements of the Kung Fu genre in ‘House of Flying Daggers’, plus I will be analysing ‘Enter the Dragon’, a Kung Fu film with Bruce Lee.
Linear Narrative
A sequential narrative with a beginning, middle and an end – in that order.
‘House of Flying Daggers’ follows this
Male gaze
term used by Laura Mulvey in her essay 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema' (1975) to describe what she saw as the male point of view adopted by camera for the benefit of the assumed male audience.
Mei is the object of the Male gaze in this movie, as she looks appealing with the make-up and clothes she wears.
Norms
Culturally determined, value-based rules of the type of behaviour expected in different social cultures.
In the beginning of the film, the women are seen to be serving men, therefore present them as being lower.
Protagonist
The leading character or hero in a film with whom the audience can identify and from whose point of the view the action is positioned, often set in binary opposition against the antagonist.
Mei is seen as the protagonist in the movie, however Jin is also along-side her.
Scopophilia
A term used by the psychologist Sigmund Freud to describe ‘the pleasure of looking’
When Mei and Jin first make love in the fields would give viewers pleasure of looking. This could also be voyeuristic pleasures.
Status Quo
Leaving things as they are
This film seems to challenge this as an Asian women is seen to be in a superior position, however, the ending portrays two men fighting for her love.
Subversive
Undermining of dominant ideology and values.
This text is challenges the stereotype of the dominant male, as Ziyi Zhang play the more active role.
Sword and Sandals
A film set in the ancient or biblical world
‘House of flying Daggers’ is set in 859AD
Voyeur
A person who watches the behaviors of others without their knowledge from a detached, non-involved position and for reasons of self-gratification.
In this text, there are elements of voyeurism as Mei bathes in the Lake, and when Mei and Jin have ‘wild sex’.
A set of attitudes, beliefs and values held in common by a group of people and culturally reproduced within that community to sustain its particular way of life.
The major values and ideologies of the text is the dominance of women and their growing power
Institution
Any of the organisations responsible for the production, marketing, distribution or regulation of media texts.
The film is produced by ‘Sony Pictures Classics’
Kung Fu
Describes a genre of film, developed in the 1970’s around the martial arts, often produced in Hong Kong and associated with the actor/director Bruce Lee.
There are elements of the Kung Fu genre in ‘House of Flying Daggers’, plus I will be analysing ‘Enter the Dragon’, a Kung Fu film with Bruce Lee.
Linear Narrative
A sequential narrative with a beginning, middle and an end – in that order.
‘House of Flying Daggers’ follows this
Male gaze
term used by Laura Mulvey in her essay 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema' (1975) to describe what she saw as the male point of view adopted by camera for the benefit of the assumed male audience.
Mei is the object of the Male gaze in this movie, as she looks appealing with the make-up and clothes she wears.
Norms
Culturally determined, value-based rules of the type of behaviour expected in different social cultures.
In the beginning of the film, the women are seen to be serving men, therefore present them as being lower.
Protagonist
The leading character or hero in a film with whom the audience can identify and from whose point of the view the action is positioned, often set in binary opposition against the antagonist.
Mei is seen as the protagonist in the movie, however Jin is also along-side her.
Scopophilia
A term used by the psychologist Sigmund Freud to describe ‘the pleasure of looking’
When Mei and Jin first make love in the fields would give viewers pleasure of looking. This could also be voyeuristic pleasures.
Status Quo
Leaving things as they are
This film seems to challenge this as an Asian women is seen to be in a superior position, however, the ending portrays two men fighting for her love.
Subversive
Undermining of dominant ideology and values.
This text is challenges the stereotype of the dominant male, as Ziyi Zhang play the more active role.
Sword and Sandals
A film set in the ancient or biblical world
‘House of flying Daggers’ is set in 859AD
Voyeur
A person who watches the behaviors of others without their knowledge from a detached, non-involved position and for reasons of self-gratification.
In this text, there are elements of voyeurism as Mei bathes in the Lake, and when Mei and Jin have ‘wild sex’.
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