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La La Land - Coggle Diagram
La La Land
Gender
Following Mia's story, her perspective
Focuses on Mia's career as a performer
Seb drives the narrative?
Isn't introduced for 17 mins
Conforms to traditional gender representations - Mia in a traditional family unit
Written and directed by men - unauthentic portrayal?
Male gaze (Mulvey)
Women are a spectacle to be looked at
Heterosexual male audience
Passive spectatorship
Frankfurt school - immersion/viewing conditions
Metz - How protagonists are constructed
Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone are attractive and ideal protagonists
More likely to identify with them
Hall - preferred, negotiated, oppositional
American Dream
Homage to old Hollywood - intertextual references
Filmed in a single take - reference to old musicals
Appreciate the skill of dancers
Panning/tracking makes camera like one of the dancers - viewership more immersive
Whip pans create the illusion of a single take
Both achieving dreams but in different ways
Mia has a traditional family unit - long shot
Seb achieved own success but on his own
Late motif has a melancholic tone