Poltergeist is about a normal suburban family who move into a new house after money troubles, later the youngest daughter comes into contact with a spirit and begin contacting them, she gets taken away by these spirits which is later seen as the poltergeist, the family hire professionals to get her back.
KEY THEORY 1: Richard Dyer (1983)
Audiences should question the representations they see in media texts. what does the representations imply? is it typical of the world or deviant?
In the poltergeist the spirits in the film are very stereotypical of spirits and ghosts as they want to come into the human world and take over Maddie to get into the human world. Although this can be seen in the our everyday world as not them many people believe/ come into contact with spirits so its quite deviant. An atypical spirit would no want contact the human world and don't want to be noticed.
KEY THEORY 3: Laura Mulvey (1975)
women mare objectified in media texts and passive objects, male gaze. Audiences are positioned to view women from a heterosexual male.
In the Poltergeist the little girl (Maddie) is seen as quite weak as she is taken away (which conforms to this theory as she is seen as a damsel in distress character) and so isn't in control of the situation but she is not seen as a sexual object. Although my film does also challenge this representation theory as the main male role (the father) is seen as quite weak at parts as he struggles when his daughter is taken and is shown as quite powerless.
KEY THEORY 4: Stuart Hall (1995)
Western/white cultures continue to misrepresent ethnic minorities as in the media due to underlying racist tendencies.
KEY THEORY 5: John Berger (1972)
according to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome - men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at
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