A Clockwork Orange.
About:
Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultra-violence. He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, “friend”, “buddy”). Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured, contemporary adolescent argot comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
Provocative content:
Rape, ultra-violence,and sexual violence- too extreme, furthermore, there occurred legal claims that the movie A Clockwork Orange had inspired true copycat behaviour.
type of censorship: X rated/ 18uk
Arguments for and against the film:
Notion of Protection:
My views:
The Exorcist.
About: The exorcist was Produced in 1973. The film was quite controversial at the time of its release due to its "sensitive subject matter." Before this time, there had been few movies dealing with demonic possession, especially in color with terrifying, state-of-the-art, special effects The Exorcist, which was made available by Warner Home Video in December 1981, was not granted a video certification by the BBFC and was withdrawn from shelves in 1986. incidents of hysteria involving young women led to some concern that the film might cause severe emotional problems particularly among those who believed in the reality of demonic possession.
Provocative content: demonic possesion, blamphemy.
type of censorship: 18
Arguments for and against the film:
Notion of Protection:
My views:
Straw Dogs.
About:
Provocative content: prolonged rape scene where the girl amy seems to enjoy it. (glamourises rape), and fascist violence.
type of censorship: R rating, X rating/18
Arguments for and against the film:The violence of Straw Dogs aroused strong reactions, many critics seeing an endorsement of violence as redemption, and the film as fascist celebration of violence and vigilantism, while others see it as anti-violence, noting the bleak ending consequent to the violence.
Notion of Protection:
My views:
Monday 28 September 2009
Theorys of Classification
Hyperdermic Theory
An effect on an audience. the term is used to describe the interaction between the media and public relief, offering the concept of people being affected by the information "injected" into them through the media.
Cultivation Theory
The belief that watching media with inappropriate themes/content eg: sex and violence, becomes embedded in the viewers culture.
Desensitisation Theory
The belief in this theory is that because people are exposed to so much violence in the media, violence no longer makes a strong emotional impact upon them.
Copycat theory
This theory states that copycat crimes take place modeled on previous crimes that have been reported/shown in the media.
Uses And Gratifications Theory
The basic theme of uses and gratifications is the idea that people use the media to get specific gratifications. (This is in opposition to the hypodermic syringe model) For example someone who watches something may feel more important and knowledgeable when they have specific facts and stories from media to talk about.
An effect on an audience. the term is used to describe the interaction between the media and public relief, offering the concept of people being affected by the information "injected" into them through the media.
Cultivation Theory
The belief that watching media with inappropriate themes/content eg: sex and violence, becomes embedded in the viewers culture.
Desensitisation Theory
The belief in this theory is that because people are exposed to so much violence in the media, violence no longer makes a strong emotional impact upon them.
Copycat theory
This theory states that copycat crimes take place modeled on previous crimes that have been reported/shown in the media.
Uses And Gratifications Theory
The basic theme of uses and gratifications is the idea that people use the media to get specific gratifications. (This is in opposition to the hypodermic syringe model) For example someone who watches something may feel more important and knowledgeable when they have specific facts and stories from media to talk about.
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Post Modernism Examples
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters."
Two Of Jane Austens most famous novels, "pride and prejudice" and "sense and sensibility" have been rendered into post modern parody-novels by Seth Grahame Smith and Ben H Winters. Both novels follow the same narrative style of both books, but feature a post modern twist - elements of modern zombie fiction in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", and in the sequal "Sense and sensibilty" and sea monsters - common tropes from sea monster stories.
These novels are considered to be post modern texts because they are parodys of famous books from a hundred or more years ago, time bending is used prodominantly in both books and also the novels do not represent reality in any form; they take traditional concepts/book plots and turn them into post modern comical texts.
Two Of Jane Austens most famous novels, "pride and prejudice" and "sense and sensibility" have been rendered into post modern parody-novels by Seth Grahame Smith and Ben H Winters. Both novels follow the same narrative style of both books, but feature a post modern twist - elements of modern zombie fiction in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", and in the sequal "Sense and sensibilty" and sea monsters - common tropes from sea monster stories.
These novels are considered to be post modern texts because they are parodys of famous books from a hundred or more years ago, time bending is used prodominantly in both books and also the novels do not represent reality in any form; they take traditional concepts/book plots and turn them into post modern comical texts.
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