Old Boy

• Positive Western reception

Cult reception
Complex narrative
Symbolism of eating the live octopus
Powerful film
Age consent

• Negative Western Reception

Harming animals- Octopus
Sadmasochism- Hammer and tongue scene
Puerile
Does not match the standards of a puritanical majority
Age consent- America has a higher consent age than Korea
Style over substance
Adolescent audience

• Hollywood Reception 

CHN
Commodifies morals- Capitalism and greed
Alignment- Make the audience sympathise him, give him a longer backstory
Happy ending- different

31/03/15

Black females are not sexualised
The only way to enjoy cinema is to ignore racism and sexism- Kaplan, identify with the white women
Black males are able to look at white women sexually

Bell hooks

Django Unchained

White man frees the slaves

Hildi- white German influence 

Django is portrayed as white- lower than a "house nigger"

Dr Shultz has more feeling for the black community- is punished by being killed 

27/03/15

Fandoms are involved in the writing process

Snakes on a plane 

Fans have more ownership over the franchise 

Intertextual experiences changes the meaning of the text 

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the crystal skull- DIDNT please the fandom 

Pleasure- sense of community and belonging

Personal relationships 

Social media 

Dressing up makes them not ordinary, escapism 

Active spectatorship- feminism 

Oppositional gazes 

Parody

Production- novel fandom 

Brokeback mountain

Rucas 

Butler-

Masculine job roles (cowboy)

Housewife and job 

Mulvey 

Kaplan 

Williams 

Notes-

Masculine boss- finds out their secret 

Sheep- purity 

After sex the sheep is killed 

Awkward tension- coming out together 

Suppress their feelings- aggression comes out 

Freud 

Hits the wall 

The wife- sympathy for being with a gay husband 

Anal- replacement for jack 

Turns his wife away- Rucas 

Butch woman- feminine homosexual man wants her

She approaches him at the bar (dominant) 

Woman's body shown bare 

They leave the woman at home upset- Kaplan, no power 

A central imagining - dick cut off 

Jack plays the mother role 

Divorce 

Prostitute 

Eniss' daughter- masculine, gender trouble 

HARRY POTTER FANDOM

http://www.hpfandom.net/eff/

Harry Potter Fandom

A group of people of all ages, from every walk of life, ten-year-olds to thirty-somethings, who love the Harry Potter books and participate in the online community, and meet-ups, devoted to those books. 

The Harry Potter Fandom is extremely diverse, very close-knit, and incredibly crazy, with people genuinely shipping everything from Ron/Hermione to Hogwarts/Giant Squid, but (usually) all loving each other anyway. And even when they don't, they will all band together, no matter who hates who for what reason, if it means defending something that is important to them, usually Harry Potter related. 

"We need Harry Potter, 
Like a grindylow needs water."

Butler vs. Rucas

Judith Butler argued that gender is not the result of nature, but how we are raised in society rules and culture. In 500 Days of Summer, the roles of gender are subverted between Summer and Tom, therefore conforming to Butler's theory. The heterosexual male spectator from Butler's point of view will not be able to have an allegiance with Summer or Tom due to their subverted gender characteristics. Summer is more masculine than Tom, which may lead these spectators to want Tom to be more mach and as a result have a sympathy towards him.
Female spectators may take a negotiated reading from this view point because of the sympathy that they may feel for Tom could lead to some sort of attraction.

Gender trouble is created when the roles are subverted.

Derek Rucas claims that homosexual spectators can only view the movie through a female gaze. For the empathy of being suppressed.

Homosexual-

Alternative and independent cinema 

Treated like an illness till the 1990s

Oppressed 

Abnormal 

Broke back mountain- first mainstream homosexual film 

03/03/15

Queer theory-
the theory came about in 1990, due to homosexuals becoming more accepted.

Judith Butler- 1999
Suggests gender is not the result of nature but is socially constructed.
Gender is a performance.
Gender trouble- not playing up to conceived gender roles


500 Days of summer- gender roles are subverted
The way they are is down to their backgrounds
Audience- judge Summer
align with Tom
Male spectators- Not able to align with Summer or Tom
Want Tom to be more macho
Female spectators- Negotiated reading
Attraction with Tom would be through the sympathy we feel for him

Homosexuality-
Male phenomenon
Lesbianism was never cited in law- male dominated, submissive women
1950s laws to stop men taking part in sexual activities with other men
Homosexuality was classed as a mental illness until 1990
Heterosexuality is still the norm
Homophobia belongs in the past


Brokeback Mountain (2006)
First mainstream Hollywood film dealing with overtly homosexuality
Satisifies the female desire
Heath Ledger
Jake Glynnehal
Actively aware they are gay

compulsory heterosexuality sets itself as the original, the true, the authentic; the norm that determines the real and implies that ‘being’ a lesbian is always a kind of miming, a vain effort to participate in the phantasmatic plenitude of naturalized heterosexuality which will always and only fail (Butler, 312.)”  
Similar to Linda Williams

Derek P. Rucas
When a gay person watches a homosexual film it brings a much more emotionally charged element to the spectator (empathy for coming out or suppressed) .