Film & Censorship |Blog Day Afternoon

These three blog posts will be examining Censorship issues in film; the first post will explore if violence is censored in American History X (1998). Secondly A Clockwork Orange (1971) will discuss the relationship of sexual content and censorship in Kubrick’s film; and finally The Passion of the Christ (2004), which will be investigating religion and censorship in the film. This …

Exploring the Heterosexual Gaze | Philadelphia (1993)

At the time of Philadelphia’s release in 1993, AIDS held a stigma – “Misinformation, paranoia, and prejudice abounded.” (The-artifice.com, 2016) For those not infected it was something to avoid, and was stereotypically linked with homosexuality, “in the mind of conservative America, this disease, which destroys the body’s ability to resist infection, came to represent the scourge of …

Analysing audience response to film |The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Audience reception has often centred on or around issues of gender, race and sexuality – for example in Film Noir, the sub-genre is typically identified as a “male fantasy” and women are simply defined by “her sexuality” because audiences for this type of film were gendered male (Place, 1998, 47), therefore as a woman I …