Riptide - Representation

Question 1

How does vance joy victimise women?

Answer 1

• Imagery and iconography of horror genre (intertextual reference)
• Cu shot scared woman appears to be tortured.
• Violence towards women, props; knife and gun, bruises

Question 2

How and why does Vance Joy make the audience uncomfortable?

Answer 2

• long shots of women with progressively smudged and scared facial expressions. enigma created
• low angle ‘spying’ on woman, zoom in

position audience against patriarchal views, abuse towards women

Question 3

Use of intertextual references.

Answer 3

whip pans, wes anderson movies

horror genre iconography, dragged into darkness

satirical representation of how women are treated in western media

Question 4

Objectification of women

Answer 4

Cu and zooming shots of body, not allowing personality and identity

dress code of swimming costume

male gaze?

Question 5

Intellectual montage

Answer 5

range of interpretations and readings

shot of men looking through camera and telescope at woman
male gaze?
“destined for the screen”
filmmaking?

Question 6

bell hooks

Answer 6

feminist text?
reinforcing or challenging patriarchal views?