Textual Analysis Exam (15 mark)

 Textual Analysis Exam (15 mark) ♡

Analyse how mise-en-scene elements contribute to the construction of stereotypes in a media product you have studied (15)

Key words to explore with stereotypes:

• male power
• white power
• feminism
• representation of race
• class representation

introduction

• inform reader/examiner of the media product you will use
• outline elements of mise-en-scene
• very briefly explain what stereotypes are and indicate how you will analyse them in this product/film. Class & race - link to horror genre

plan

1

• mise-en-scene conforms to stereotypes - typical setting and atmosphere for horror genre
• night setting - expectation or suspense, wrong, tension
• andre attacked at night - stereotypically crime/ violence takes place at night
• subverts Todorovs theory

2

• mise-en-scene subverts stereotypes
• race - black man gets attacked (unlike traditional media representations)
• white car
• black people may feel represented
• theory - Altman: intellectual pleasures: does it make the audience think?

3

• mise-en-scene subverts and conforms stereotype
• class - andre 'sticks out like a sore thumb' in rich neighbourhood
• conforms that black people may be lower class and feel out of place with upper classes
• subverts that working class are the ones whom commit crime - andre is the victim
• theory - levi-strauss: rich vs poor

4

• subverts stereotype that victims of crime are usually female
• theory - Barthes action codes: he got abducted, why? viewers keep watching to find out