Wednesday 17 October 2012

Music Video - Intertextual References



Location


  • American establishing shot
  • Chains = prison
  • Women seen as means for sex and nothing more




Inter-textual references:

  • Movie openings - 70's font yellow and red drop shadow (Jackie Brown)
  • Thelma and Louise - dominant women
  • LADY GAGA hair bright yellow (comic book hero) and blue eye shadow - film captain america reference
  • Betty Page - 1950's pin up risque model
  • Pink Flamingos - DIVINE represents subculture
  • Pierre & Gilles - Costumes and make up worn by Lady Gaga 
  • 'Faster, pussycat kill! kill!' - films to see women fighting each other in risque clothes (like prison scene)
  • Famous Pop Art - frame of Beyonce looking at camera
  • Wonder-woman and Captain America - all about american heros and culture
  • Rotating skull and crossbones like video game - poison scene
  • Contemporary design - Alexander McQueen
  • And many more...

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