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2) Write a one-sentence summary of the ideas of the theorists Matthew Daintrey-Hall covered (you can use your notes from task 1 here if relevant):

bell hooks:"Gender becomes a set of connotations that have become naturalized." Gender roles are constructed, men and women are victimised from a patriarchal society.  bell hooks believes that traditionally masculine attitudes and behaviours aren't natural but rather constructed by a patriarchal society.

Liesbet van Zoonen:in patriarchal society in 1960's women are being objectified by the new media and constructed in a way to show their body.

Judith Butler: gender is perfomance and we are contrscted in a way of doing things as man and female.

Saussure:society is an institution which makes all the decisions.

Barthes:enigma codes controls how much we know/mysteryand actions codes which is the important parts of the narrative.

Stuart Hall:reception theory. of dominant and oppositional which is dominant what the writings intends to show and oppositional will be against the view point of the writer.


Baudrillard:Baudrillard states “Hyperreality – a condition in which ‘reality’ has been replaced by simulacra.” ◦ Simulacra – when a sign loses its relation to reality, it begins to simulate a simulation (the process in which a representation of something comes to replace the thing which is actually being represented.

3) Choose one of the films we saw extracts from and watch the whole movie: Captain Fantastic (2016), Pulp Fiction (1994) or Inception (2010). Write a 300 word analysis of your chosen film using theories from the study day (use the exam paragraph structure we were shown on the day - theory introduction, examples from text, why this 'proves' or 'disproves' the theory).