La La Land (2016, Chazelle) & Frances Ha (2012, Baumbach)

Lesson 1 - Nostalgia in Hollywood and a brief history of the Musical genre

Lesson 2 - Ideology, Gender and a feminist critique

This document contains a selection of ideological criticisms that have been leveled at the film. You can use these to help understand how other people have responded to the film and to inform your own ideological analysis of the work.

This reading of the film offers a highly critical feminist perspective which accuses the film of reinforcing old and tired stereotypes of gender.

This document argues that La La Land is a pro-feminist film that exposes Chazelle's 'inner-feminist'

Lesson 3 - Post-Modernism, Aesthetics and Mise-en-scene

Post-Modernism

Inter-textuality

Self-reflexivity

Homage / Pastiche

Lesson 4 - SPECTATORSHIP - THE THEORIES

Lesson 5 - SPECTATORSHIP - Alignment/Allegiance - Analysis of films

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Lesson 6 - SPECTATORSHIP - Answering the question(s)

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Lesson 7 - La La Land - Cinematography

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