Wednesday, 21 November 2007

10 Keyswords AGAIN!

1) Sub-Genre: A genre within a genre.
There are many genres within the film,apart from drama.

2)Iconography:The distinguishing elements, in terms of props and visual details, which characterise genre.
You can see that the film is a drama because in many posters and dvd covers,there is a candle lit which is the candle that she lit her husband to his death.

3)Subjective: shown from a subject's point of view.
The whole film could be said to be 'sbjective'.

4)Levi Strauss: The theory of binary opposition, two things opposing each other.
Kiran- Deepak


5)Deviance: Unacceptable behaviour that goes against the norms and values of the society.
Deepak beating up Kiran. In my hypothesis i am trying to prove this right.

6) Marxist Femenism: Ideology which shows a femenists perspective that sees captilaism as the principal source of gendwr inequalitites.

Deepak is shown more powerful than Kiran.

7)Key Concept: Any of the core concepts on which a media studies programme focuses on: Audience,genre and ideology.
All of these are used in the film.

8)Male Gaze: Laura Mulvey, a theorist on the male point of view.
This is related to kirans point of view how she felt about a man overpowering her.

9)Culture: a social practice of a group.
The asian culture may find beating up a women more acceptable than a different culture.

10)Actuality- Something filmed or reported which is an real event.
The film is a true story.

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