For next Tuesday (September 27th) read John Storey's chapter on film in Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture. He references two seminal essays on film: Will Wright's 'Sixguns and Society ' and Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure'.
To fully appreciate these essays re-read your notes on structuralism from the first year, it will be a great help in this lecture.
It would also be a great help to think of the cliches of Hollywood films, I will use a Western or 'Cowboy' film as my example to explain structuralism, but any visual text will do. So come prepared thinking about Storey's essay and about predictable and hackneyed story lines we often see in films.
A James Bond film is also useful for this analysis of predictable plots in movies.
Lecture 3 (next week) is also preparation for the Bend it Like Beckham lecture in week 4, so also think about how national and cultural identity is portrayed in films. Again, does popular cinema put a series of stereotypes into effect?
Keep blogging and keep reading Storey and Sandbrook.
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