Riptide

Question 1

Key scenes

Answer 1

• Singing woman
• Phallic scenes
• Whip pan sequence of woman being stared at
• Women as victims

Question 2

“I was scared of pretty girls”

Answer 2

• Portraying a sexualised woman to be looked at - voyeurism
• Objectification of women
• All the women throughout the video fall into the traditional western patriarchal beauty standards

Question 3

Women as victims

Answer 3

Consistently women are portrayed as victims - hegemonic gender roles
Victims to Hollywood
Victims to the patriarchy

Question 4

Juxtaposition

(rhythm and lyrics)

Answer 4

• Between the upbeat rhythm and lyrics with dark imagery.
• Amplification of the lyrics because it twists them to have a new meaning.

Question 5

Repetition of the Hands

Answer 5

• a symbol of fetish, how hands can generate both intense pain and pleasure
• wounded and severed hands - representation of castration anxiety

Question 6

Directors

Answer 6

Basil and Gorun

Question 7

Male hands

Answer 7

Active role, signifying a sense of control
eg. holding gun

Question 8

Female hands

Answer 8

Passive role, signifying a victim
eg. stabbing

Question 9

Stuart Hall (narratives)

Answer 9

• Riptide delivers a non traditional narrative, replacing linear narrative with a post modern narrative
• The deliberate attempt at separating the lyrics to the imagery will render the video unintelligible for most casual viewers

Question 10

Postmodern attributes

Answer 10

• Favours disjuncture and rejects structuralism
• Polysemy - intellectual montage opens multiple interpretations
• Self reflexive - a comment on the objectification of women in Hollywood/ media

Question 11

Repetition of image sequences

Answer 11

Creates disjuncture

Question 12

genre conventions within this mv?

Answer 12

Deviates from typical indie genre conventions, instead has more conventions aligning with the horror genre.

Question 13

type of music video

Answer 13

Conceptual music video (Goodwin) - rejection of narrative
- Designed to encode a sense of intrigue or uniqueness to the artist - not aligning with the mainstream

Question 14

Stuart Hall

Answer 14

inequalities of power
Stereotypes - reducing women to a few minor characteristics

Question 15

bell hooks

Answer 15

glamorous women are damaging to society, the damaging impact of the male gaze on women (visual metaphor)

Question 16

Intertextuality

Answer 16

• Wes Anderson
• The Wickerman