Riptide
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- Created on: 14-11-19 11:28
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- Riptide - Vance Joy
- Language
- Seemingly low budget and unique style
- Intertextual elements are used
- Montage editing - a wide range of contrasting shots to convey a large amount of information
- The editing of seemingly unrelated images invites audience interpretation
- The video links to the lyrics
- Lyrics interpreted on screen
- Rejects a clearly defined narrative
- References surrealism
- References Western and Thriller genres and Wes Anderson films
- Lack of special effects
- Representation
- Violence and sexual desire inform the video
- Dream-like logic
- Objectifies women
- Regular disembodied sections of women's bodies
- Trivialises violence
- Key shots
- Man and woman suddenly look at something off screen and the next scene is a pile of dollar bills - green with envy or earning lots of money
- Dentist contraption in a woman's mouth - overt graphical representation
- Women being dragged off screen by a dark force - references the horror genre
- Lip-synch sections
- Challenges gender representation
- Theories
- Barthes - semiotics
- Neale - genre
- Gauntlett - identity
- hooks - feminism
- Language
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