key theories

How the media shows us things about society but this is through careful meditation (Re-presentation)

southpaw- The plot of southpaw is of a light heavy weigh champion who has a beautiful wife and daughter and life is going well but  a brawl at a charity event with his rival Escobar in the commotion his wife is fatally shot, billy goes into a downward spiral where he goes off the rails with drug and loses his belts, house and daughter and Billy has to rebuild his life and starts by attending the local inner city boxing club where he becomes a fighter again, he gets his boxing titles, daughter and self respect back.

Key theory 1:Tim O'sullivan at al
For representation to work there has to be a shared recognition of people and places. all representations therefore have ideologies behind them

In my film southpaw the wife Maurine is represented as the caring worrier out of her and Billy, she is the logical thinker of the pair who stops their daughter from watching the fight and tries to stop Billy from getting hurt and Billy is represented as a provider for the family (a typical male role).

the ideologies in my film orientate around the family life ideology

Key theory 2:Richard Dyer 1983
'Audiences should question the representations they see in media texts'

For example what dose the representation imply and is it typical or deviant

In the beginning of the film we see how reliant Maureen and his child are on Billy, representing him as the soul provider for the family and then when we see Maureen removed from the equation we learn that Billy was equally if not more reliant on Maureen.  

Key theory 3:Laura Mulvey 1975
male gaze
women are objectified in media texts and passive objects.
Audiences are positioned to view the woman from the point of view of a heterosexual male

this applies to my film because the woman in the film is objectified through the way she is dressed for example she is always dressed her best when in the eye of the public and when with Billy.

Key theory 4:Stuart hall 1995
western/white cultures continue to misrepresent ethnic minorities as in the media due to underlying racist tendencies

in my film the antagonist is a Colombian boxer and the protagonist is a White American. 

Key theory 5:Edward Said
orientalism is a way of seeing that distorts differences of Arab culture as its compared to that of Europe and US. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backwards, uncivilised and dangerous.

The basic distinction between east and west as a starting point for elaborate theories, novels, social descriptions and political accounts concerning the orient, its people, customs, mind, destiny and so on