FILM 1701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Laura Mulvey, Sound Stage, Watching Movies
13 Nov 2017
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Musical chapter 3: the genre began to receive attention in the later half of the 20th century. Spectatorship: psychoanalytical and feminist theory are some approaches to film analysis, semiotic theory which is connected to the field of structural linguistics in its engagement with language and as a system of signification. It assumes that every spectator takes the same meaning from the film. In the classical phase of the genre, the musical was constructed as escapisy entertainment, specifically constructed for the viewers pleasure. In the revisionist phase, the underlying motivations an inherent ideologies of the classical phase are critiqued and questioned, and the dark side of the. American dream is revealed: rather than permitting the viewer to escape into fantasy, revisionist musicals frequently force the viewer to confront an ugly or painful reality. Cabaret: bob fosses cabaret is revisionist, set in the 1930s the era of the classical hollywood musical.
