Research Posts (Self)

The Critical Spectator; How Directors Manipulate an Audience

http://www.france24.com/en/20151027-cinema-lobster-couples-singles-yorgos-lanthimos-farrell-weisz-cannes - Making fun of society's 'date-or-die' attitude. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/uc8cj/inglourious_basterds_is_a_mirror_to_confront_the/ - Could be useful 

=Irony or hypocrisy


Use Reddit to post an open question about how films make a running commentary on the intended audience. 

http://tonymckibbin.com/course-notes/spectatorship-theory - Talk about how an audience is constructed by a film - "This is a cinema that seems to blend Hitchcock with Godard as it looks for the self-reflexive viewer involved in not only analysing the film, but also their own ongoing emotional responses to it."
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Dutoit and Bersani go on to say “those who will watch the film have, in a sense, already been created by it. That’s how the camera looks at us: it imposes on our looking an identity already invented for us.”

http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/semiotics/srb/implicated.html



Basic Plan;
Introduction, including an introduction to spectatorship.