FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: French New Wave, Studio System, Riot Grrrl
22 Dec 2015
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A structure of educated guesswork and creative repetition robert kolker. A woman is a woman shows us the failure of the codes. Genre on the wane by late 1960s. Why?- decline of studio system- changing audience expectations. Challenges manner in which cinema shapes identity. These narratives tend not to allow women"s agency their ability to speak" or address their. Court life in the diegetic world of the film. History and the dominant image of marie antoinette. The representational and genre codes of the cinema. The woman caught in-between how she is represented as an object of the gaze and her own desires as a subject image shows her both gazed upon and gazing. The film then initially retreats from this promise. Marie is trapped in a highly codified and structured world- not unlike that of cinema itself (especially the historical drama)
