van der Merwe, Ann. "Music, the musical, and postmodernism in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge." Music and the Moving Image 3.3 (2010): 31+. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Mar. 2015.
Summary: In this article, it discusses the use of music in the film Moulin Rouge! and the style techniques of director Baz Luhrmann through the music. It basically talks about how Luhrmann used postmodern songs in a film that was supposed to be set in the 1899. It also talked about how the music and different songs function as a narrative and dialogue. They all tell a story and make sense rather than the characters just bursting out into song.
Evaluation: I think that this is a useful source, because it really focuses the different techniques Luhrmann uses through music and how he uses that to create a story. Compared to my other sources so far, this one is different, because it has one specific focus: the music. I think it is reliable, because just by watching the film you know how important the music is to the story. Without it, the film would be a mess. The songs tell the story like it says in the article.
Reflection: This article fits into my research very well, because it sort of goes along with the focus of my paper. My focus for my paper is the style of Baz Luhrmann and how he creates another world in his films that almost do not seem real, and this article shows how music is definitely part of that. Music is a very important and dramatic factor to this film and this source would be very useful to me.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Source #1
Åström, Berit. "Referred Pain: Privileging Male Emotions In Narrative Instances Of Female Physical Suffering." Journal Of Gender Studies 20.2 (2011): 125-137. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Mar. 2015
Summary: In this article, it brings up 3 specific films, including the film I will be researching, Moulin Rouge! It discusses the males' emotional suffering over the females' physical suffering. In the article, specifically the Moulin Rouge areas, it talks about how "the heroine must sacrifice herself sexually, yet the hero’s emotions are the ones that are in focus." It discusses, with many examples, how the female's suffering is referred to the male mind, like how Satine is living as a prostitute and must sacrifice herself to the Duke, yet the storyline is set mainly around Christian's emotions and his love for her and his suffering.
Evaluation: This article was useful, because it is analyzing how these films were made, especially Moulin Rouge! I think that it is a reliable source, because it is a scholarly article and written by someone who is in the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University in Sweden. I think that this article may be a little bias, because it only talks about how the films only look at the males emotional suffering and not the females. Most of the time that is true, but not completely. In Moulin Rouge, it shows Satine's emotional suffering when she gets sick and eventually dies.
Reflection: This research was helpful to me, because it has a lot of information on Moulin Rouge! and how the story works and how melodramatic it really is. It hasn't really changed my opinion on the topic, because everything that they talked about were things that I noticed when watching the film.
Summary: In this article, it brings up 3 specific films, including the film I will be researching, Moulin Rouge! It discusses the males' emotional suffering over the females' physical suffering. In the article, specifically the Moulin Rouge areas, it talks about how "the heroine must sacrifice herself sexually, yet the hero’s emotions are the ones that are in focus." It discusses, with many examples, how the female's suffering is referred to the male mind, like how Satine is living as a prostitute and must sacrifice herself to the Duke, yet the storyline is set mainly around Christian's emotions and his love for her and his suffering.
Evaluation: This article was useful, because it is analyzing how these films were made, especially Moulin Rouge! I think that it is a reliable source, because it is a scholarly article and written by someone who is in the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University in Sweden. I think that this article may be a little bias, because it only talks about how the films only look at the males emotional suffering and not the females. Most of the time that is true, but not completely. In Moulin Rouge, it shows Satine's emotional suffering when she gets sick and eventually dies.
Reflection: This research was helpful to me, because it has a lot of information on Moulin Rouge! and how the story works and how melodramatic it really is. It hasn't really changed my opinion on the topic, because everything that they talked about were things that I noticed when watching the film.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Possible Research Topics
1. Keeping Up With the Kardashians: reality tv, and how things are staged in order to make their lives seem more dramatic. Every little thing is blown out of proportion in every episode.
2. Moulin Rouge: film,every part of it is melodramatic. The music is very, very dramatic, and also the omniscience is very important, because throughout most of the film, we know that the lead girl, Satine, is dying yet she is hiding it and is not telling the person that she loves, and then finally of course right as they finished their show and they are taking their bow and they can finally be together, she falls to the ground and dies. Timing also plays a huge role with that.
3. Pretty Little Liars: tv show, the entire show is complete chaos. Every little thing goes wrong. This is one thing where the promos for the upcoming episode make it look a lot more dramatic than the episode actually is.
2. Moulin Rouge: film,every part of it is melodramatic. The music is very, very dramatic, and also the omniscience is very important, because throughout most of the film, we know that the lead girl, Satine, is dying yet she is hiding it and is not telling the person that she loves, and then finally of course right as they finished their show and they are taking their bow and they can finally be together, she falls to the ground and dies. Timing also plays a huge role with that.
3. Pretty Little Liars: tv show, the entire show is complete chaos. Every little thing goes wrong. This is one thing where the promos for the upcoming episode make it look a lot more dramatic than the episode actually is.
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