INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

Individual Short Presentations – 11th February 2021

 

This session will be conducted as 'flipped learning'. At 2:10, you log into Classroom and read your task. You have most of period 6 to prepare your individual presentation and upload the written work to today's Classroom. Just before the start of period 7 at 2.50, turn on your mike and camera when it is your turn to present. Tom starts, explains his task, presents, then tells the class who he is handing over to. 

Fia goes next and so on, with each person introducing and handing over to the next. You must have your camera on while you explain.

 

Thomas

1.Explain the reference in the film title Bend It Like Beckham.  Give a brief account of the film’s narrative, including the Bhamra family’s ethnicity and religion, and how / why the parents try to ensure that their daughters conform to tradition.

Explain the ways in which the film’s heroine Jess (Jesminder) tries to “bend” established cultural and gender roles. If you can, Link your comments on how the children are made to dress to Judith Butler (see yesterday’s blog post).

 

Fia

2.East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George and an English mother Ella.

Read up on the film. Explain the ways in which the father believes that his children are becoming too ‘Westernised’ and increasingly see themselves as British, rejecting Pakistani dress, food, religion and living. Give specific examples of the behaviour of the one daughter Meenah, and the son Tariq. Link your comments on how the children are made to dress to Judith Butler (see yesterday’s blog post).

 

Charlotte

3.In his book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)  Erving Goffman

uses the metaphor of theatrical production to offer a way of understanding human interaction and behaviour. He argues that social life is a "performance" carried out by "teams" of participants in three places: "front stage," "back stage," and "off stage." Backstage behaviour is what we do when no-one is looking or when we are not trying to pretend. Front stage behaviour is when we are ‘performing’ in public for other people. This applies to the behaviour of the family in East Is East  Watch the trailer. and explain how Goffman’s ideas of ‘performing’ a role for outsiders applies.

 

 

Sam

4. East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George and an English mother Ella. Watch the trailer.

Read up on the film. Explain the reference in the film title: where does it come from and what does it mean for the film?

 

Tallulah

5. For Judith Butler Butler, gender is 'performative', like a theatre script that is repeatedly performed to a social audience, of acts associated with male or female. For Butler, gender is not innate, but "a series of acts which are renewed, revised, and consolidated through time". This suggests that performances of woman are compelled and enforced by historical social practice. For example, in films like East is East and Bend It Like Beckham, young Asian women are required by their parents to dress in particular ways that count as 'female' or 'suitable'. Apply Butler to the film Yasmin.

 

Jessica

6. Explain the term ‘warrior women’ and how it might apply to Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Aliens (1986). 

 

Finn

7. ‘Robotic 'service' figures tend to be constructed as compliant females.’ Research at least one example and explain how far this is true.

 

Matt

8. Films that fail the Bechdel Test. Pick one of these examples and explain its representation of women.

 

Preesha

9. Films that pass the Bechdel Test . Pick one of these examples and explain its representation of women.

 

Ben

10. Angela McRobbie and Post-Feminist Icon Theory. Use yesterday’s the class blog post to re-read about Angela McRobbie. Explain in what way Lara Croft could be identified as a post-feminist icon.

 

Ellie

11. Angela McRobbie and Post-Feminist Icon Theory. Use yesterday’s the class blog post to re-read about Angela McRobbie. Explain in what way Rihanna could be identified as a post-feminist icon.

 

Laura

12. Explain the term ‘warrior women’ and how it might apply to examples such as Avatar with the CGI alien Neytiri (2009, James Cameron), Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2001), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee), Mei in The House Of Flying Daggers (2004, Yimou Zhang), Mulan (2020, Niki Caro), Captain Marvell (2019) and similar films like Captain America, Wonder Woman. 

 

Millie

13. How do slasher films tend to represent women and what is the ‘final girl’ concept? Use at least one example to explain.