Detailed Visual texts process the ability to morph our perception of the human experience into one of understanding. Ang Lee’s film Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger and Robert Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover illustrates the specific clash of Victorian and Wuxia themes of Gender and Social roles upon distinct individuals by highlighting characters such as Jen, Shu Lien, Porphyria and the Speaker to deliver these ideals. This is rendered by using such expressive techniques including music, camera shots, costuming and textual techniques to successfully shape the ideologies and cultures through visual means.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon portrays a Gender sociotype extensively through the Eastern and Western norms contrasted to illustrate the perception of a high patriarch society with men being free to their whims, whilst women are situated in a prison like environment. Ang Lee conveyed this concept by idolising Jen and Jade Fox as two unusual female characters who are stuck in between
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Browning’s text juxtapositions Crouching Tiger, imposing a large idea of love between separate sides of social classes. By emphasizing the imbalance of societal power, Porphyria brings inequality for her lower-social class lover. Through the imagery of a “gay feast” it conveys the exquisite high social class that Porphyria exists in, contrasted to a lowly peasant residing in a cold “cottage”, however the speaker dislikes Porphyria being in power due to social class, thus symbolically the “yellow string” of her hair is used to “strangle her” representing the symbolic balancing of social balance as the speaker is on level with her. Furthermore “to set its struggling passion free, from pride, and vainer ties dissever,” exclaim a hint of struggle with her pride which could relate to her sociotype ties, through this the audience is confused due to her
The imagery in this passage helps turn the tone of the poem from victimization to anger. In addition to fire images, the overall language is completely stripped down to bare ugliness. In previous lines, the sordidness has been intermixed with cheerful euphemisms: the agonizing work is an "exquisite dance" (24); the trembling hands are "white gulls" (22); the cough is "gay" (25). But in these later lines, all aesthetically pleasing terms vanish, leaving "sweet and …blood" (85), "naked… [and]…bony children" (89), and a "skeleton body" (95).
Ever since the establishment of cinema in the early 1900s, Hollywood has continuously recreated elements of history to reenact for its future generations. In order to clearly broadcast a specific theme or message to relay to viewers around the world, Hollywood executives tend to embellish real life events, in order to provide a “fairytale” aspect to a seemingly not so “happily- ever-after” story from history. As part of this “fairytale” aspect, Hollywood tends to delegitimize as well as provide a more disrespectful and more comical version of societies and cultures in the specific time frame that the film is being set. Through the art of story telling, the movies Mulan and Kung Fu Panda, depict the two sides of Hollywood, the falsifying and mockery making of Chinese people, their society, beliefs and true events of history and that of an accurate portrayal.
The “lotus blossom” stereotype is an Asian American female stereotype that portrays them as feminine, submissive, and desirable romantic interests for the white male protagonist (Tajima 309). Although the stereotype is the production of films fetishizing the “traditional Orient” culture, the stere...
Due to the impressionable essence of the audience, the film’s message has a responsibility as it will leave an impact on the viewership. The film Stagecoach (1939) was a Western film which essentially spoke to generations of men seeking a model of manhood grounded in bravery, moral violence, and independence; whereas with the women characters, they represented civilization and domestication” (Dr Nance week 3). The reception of the audience was positive; the film thrived in society as it came out at a time where the Great Depression saw a time of family breakdown and disillusionment of the American Dream (Dr Nance week 3). Essentially, the dark aspects and the gendered representations resonated with the audience as it was relevant to their own lives. The impact of this film, however, can come from the desensitization to violence in society. Another example can be from the film King Kong and the representation of the ‘damsel in distress’ trope of a woman needing to be saved. Although it generated an overall popular response, the detrimental effects comes from the domestic imbalance and influence it had on
In the opening scene of Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark we see Indiana Jones’ whip in his pocket, and his hat from behind. The ordinary world for Indiana Jones is not really boring, as he is living as a professor at Oxford, and he is living day by day, but he is constantly being hit on by many of the undergraduates that he teaches in his Archaeology class. We see the undergraduate girl close her eye lid to display a message that said “LOVE YOU.”
Thomas Nast was an extremely popular political cartoonist who crusaded in the reform of New York politics by making the political corruptions of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall public and widely known. Thomas Nast's “Tammany Tiger” is among his most famous political cartoons. In this cartoon, Nast presents the Tammany Hall political machine in the form of a powerful tiger. The cartoon’s caption reads, “The Tammany Tiger Loose—‘What are you going to do about it?’” The tiger is let loose in an arena of sorts where a woman is being held down. The women’s fallen off helmet is labelled “Republic” and lies alongside her broken shield labeled “Ballot” and a broken sword labeled “Law.” This women is known as Columbia and is a symbol of the American Republic.
The iconic opening scene of Indiana jones Raider of the Lost Ark is a great example of what the movie is about. The director named Steven Spielberg made this creative choice as the opening scene because it tells us the whole movie is about a character with a fedora running around looking for lost treasures. The main character Indiana Jones face isn't shown until later on in the opening sequence, creating a sense of mystery over who the character really is. The cameras are position away from the characters, like someone is watching them. Also, Indiana is shown as the leader of the group as he is in front of the others, trying to find out where they need to go.
In Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Mulvey states that, “Traditionally, the woman displayed has functioned on two levels: as erotic object for the characters within the screen story, and as erotic object for the spectator within the auditorium, with a shifting tension between the looks on either side of the screen.” (Mulvey 40). A woman’s role in the narrative is bound to her sexuality or the way she
This autobiographic novel is divided into five chapters and is set in three different places: the New Society Village in China, a medical school in Canton, and Kingston’s American home, Stockton, California. Throughout the novel women are vehemently oppressed by other women due to the cultural view of women are inferior to men and useless. The first chapter, “No Name Women” illustrates the tale of Kingston’s aunt, who gives birth to a bastard child in a pigsty, kills herself and child in a well, and is shunned after her death to the effect that her entire existence is erased and unacknowledged. The second chapter, “White Tigers,” depicts the epic story of Fa Mu Lan, a fierce woman warrior that leads men into battle to overthrow a cruel empire. This story is then contrasted with
Bridge of Spies tells an account of the Cold War from American attorney James Donovan through his involvement in negotiations for captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Released on October 21, 2015 and directed by Steven Spielberg, this film was nominated for, and received numerous awards. It was met with critical acclaim and was a box office success, earning $165.5 million, over four times its budget. In 1957, Rudolf Abel, a European man living in America, is arrested with suspicion of being a Soviet spy.
A Corrections Analysis of “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) by Frank Darabont This corrections study will analyze the problem of internal corruption in mid-20th century prisons through the film, “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994). The main characters of this novel define the problem of exploitation of prison labor through the experiences of inmate Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) over a period of 20 years at the Shawshank Prison Penitentiary. Andy’s experiences define the continual exploitation of his financial sector services (money laundering, accounting, etc.)that he provides to the corrupt warden, Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). These interactions in the prison facility define the corruption of prison officials, which deny Andy his freedom through
Bridge of Spies Review |Tom Hanks shines in an engrossing real-life Cold War story Bridge of Spies brings together the formidable team of Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in an engrossing true-life tale of espionage during the Cold War era. There could possibly be hundreds of such tales in history, but only St. Steven can make it into an Oscar-bait movie experience. Unlike most complicated spy thrillers which involves a lot of discrete phone calls from phone-boxes and driving around in taxis trying to get rid of the tail, Spielberg takes you for a ride laid with logical reasoning and narrative coherence. In the year 1957, hostilities between USA and USSR are at all-time high after the Rosenberg executions.
The Disney movie, Mulan, is a fantastic movie that depicts gender-stereotyped roles, socialization of gender roles, and consequences of over stepping one’s gender role. Both males and females have a specific role in the Chinese society that one must follow. Mulan made a brave choice pretending to be a man and going to war against the Huns in place of her father, risking serious consequences if she were to get caught. She broke the socialization of gender roles and could have been faced with very serious consequences of her actions. The Chinese society in Mulan exemplifies the typical gender roles of males and females, the consequences of displaying the opposite gender role, and showed what the society expected in males and females in characteristics and attitudes.
Another visual media piece that is my favorite is the video game The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. This is my favorite video game because I have always loved the Spyro series and it teaches important lessons in its gameplay. Its graphics are beautiful and I love the scenery and the sense that the player can play as a dragon. I love how the player can actually fly like a dragon and all of the characters are so interesting and diverse.
Along with many other cultures, the Chinese had to devise a way to tell time. Emperor at the time, Yú Dí, also known as the Jade Emperor, decided he would make it twelve year cycle. Thirteen animals were invited; the cat was the last one to finish so it was eliminated. To start the order was determined by how they finished in the race. When the race was completed the animals landed in this order; First was the rat, then the ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and finally the boar. I was born on May, 22nd 1999 at 5:30 pm; this lands me with an outer animal of a rabbit, an inner animal of a snake, and as a secret animal a rooster.