2. Susanna a depressed 18 year old is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a
psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the
husbandof her parents'friend.The doctorsuggeststhatcombiningabottle of aspirinanda bottle of
vodkawas a suicide attempt.This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore.
Claymoore isa private mental hospital fullof noisy,crazypeople.Georginaisapathological liar.Polly
has beenbadlyscarred by fire. Daisy won't eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath,
the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other
girlsinthe hospital.Lisahasa historyof escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a
problem... Susanna's boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her
institutionalized friends... Which he has a reason to because lisa and susanna soon become close
friends and end up escaping together.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172493/
Genre: Biography, Drama.
Directer: James Mangold
Year of Production: 1999
Girl, Interrupted

3. prozac nationGenre: Drama
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Year of Production: 2001
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a teenager accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in
journalism. She has been raised by her divorced mother Mrs. Wurtzel since she was two
years old, but she misses her father and feels needy and depressive. When she joins the
university, she lives with a roommate Ruby and has her sexual initiation with Noah. Her
article for the local column in Crimson newspaper is awarded by Rolling Stone magazine.
Lizzie becomes abusive in sex and drugs, and her existential crisis and depression increases
and she hurts her friends and her mother that love her, while dating Rafe. Mrs. Wurtzel
sends her to an expensive psychiatric treatment with Dr. Sterling, in spite of having
difficulties paying for her medical bills and therapy sessions. After a long period of treatment
under medication, and suicide attempt, Lizzie stabilizes and adjusts to the real world.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236640/

4. virgin suicides
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Sofia Coppola
Year of Production: 1999
The Virgin Suicides is a beautiful story about five sisters, and their mysterious existence, told in the
words of the neighborhood boyswho worshiped them and who come together 20 years later to try
and solve the mystery of the Lisbon sisters. It is a solitary story of the girls isolation and the sleepy
portrayal of how they watched powerless as their fragile lives disappeared.
The film begins with the suicide attempt of the youngest sister, Cecilia, as she slits her wrist in a bath.
After her parents throw a chaperoned party intended to make her feel better, Cecilia excuses herself
and jumps out her bedroom window, dying when she impales herself on an iron fence. In the wake of
her act, the Lisbon parents begin to watch over their daughters even more closely, further isolating
the family from the community and heightening the air of mystery about the Lisbon family and what
they are really about.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/plotsummary

5. What it is that attracts me to these genre's
(Drama, Biography, Romance)
The thing that attracts me the Drama genre is that before you watch the movie and you
see that it is a ‘Drama’ genre you instantly expect it to be full of drama and I’ve noticed
that most films I watch today that are drama genre is that there is almost always a
teenage girl in them that is facing problems we face today ourselves, I think that’s
what most attracts me because I can relate to the emotions and life styles some of
these teenagers have, e.g. trust, Prozac nation, kill your darlings. ‘Trust’ because it is
based on being safe on the internet and most of us have grew up knowing the dangers
of the internet and speaking to people online, the security precautions you have to
take yet we see a girl who is oblivious to the fact that this guy she has fell in love with
over the internet could be any danger to her. ‘Prozac Nation’ because she is one of
many sufferers of a mental illness like most of us today, she shows the struggles she
goes through with her parents, her friends, and in the end she loses all of them before
she gets put on a tablet called ‘Prozac’ that she has to take daily, she describes that the
medication makes her numb and makes her feel as if she’s in a bubble floating, which
isn’t a bad way of describing it because it’s true, but I can relate and it’s just another
coincidence that this genre is drama. ‘Kill your darlings’ is also a drama, romance and is
filled with poetry which I love, and romance which I also love, a lot of drama goes on
and even murder. What I’m trying to get across is that every Drama movie I watch is
always filled with excitement, home truths, and people my own age, so I nearly always
look for a movie in the drama section, hoping to watch a film like the last drama I
watched.

6. Why do I like these chosen Genres (e.g. Stars,
Story, Special Effects)
Stars – I’ve noticed that a few drama’s I have watched have the actor Brad Pitt in e.g. Pulp Fiction, Inglorious
Bastards, Fight Club, The Curious Life Of Benjamin Button, The Tree Of Life, Babel, Burn After Reading and Fury.
Also my favourite actress Dakota Fanning is in most drama’s that I love and I’ve been watching her from a
young age so maybe watching the style of movies she’s been in has made me addicted to the genre Drama, e.g.
Man on Fire, I Am Sam, Very Good Girls, The Motel Life, Now Is Good, The Runaways, and Hounddog.
Story – The drama’s I like in particular: The Fault In Our Stars, The Runaways, Very Good Girls, The Silver Linings
Playbook, Girl Interrupted, Prozac Nation, Lolita and Leon the Professional all have one thing in common, the
story's are based around a girl, no matter what age, no matter what problems they have, they are all based on
the girl or the girls.
I like this in particular because I myself am a girl, and I much prefer watching films that are based around girls
and their problems or their story’s. Leon and Lolita are undoubtedly the same as they have the same story
about an old man and a young pre-teen falling in love, either the man with the girl or the girl with the man, and
it’s interesting to see how the actors play them roles, although Lolita is based around a character called
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach who rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house,
but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to who he is immediately attracted. Though he
hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will prove to be too mature
for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout
the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound
jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seems slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. And
Leon is about a character called Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, who is living an undesirable life
among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother
keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for
stretching the drugs a little, this killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by
finding shelter in Léon's apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange
neighbour's unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother.
Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out
of trouble - unsuccessfully. A little too soon Mathilda pronounces her love for Leon and he finds this confusing
and a little scary as she tries to seduce him in childish ways of dancing and acting out celebrities in a scene.
Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police
officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for
the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.

7. Intertextuality in Pulp Fiction
The weaponsthatButch considersbefore savingMarcellus:
Hammer—The Toolbox Murders(1978)
Baseball bat—WalkingTall (1973)
Chainsaw—The TexasChainsaw Massacre (1974)
The momentwhere Butchiswaitingat a crossroads
inhis car has hispath crossedbyMarcellusWallace
isa directreference tothe momentinPsycho(1960
AlfredHitchcock) whenMarionCrane seesherboss
walkinfront of her car afterfleeingfromhim,
havingstolen$40,000.
Mia's haircut styledafterLouise BrooksinPandora'sBox (1928 G.W. Pabst)

8. Media Literacy & Active Spectatorship
Active spectatorshipisthe relationshipbetween a film and its audience showing the reactions that
theygetout of people.Thesewill tendtovarydependingonthe circumstances.Whenmaking a film
the directors and producers already know that their film will provoke some sort of reaction from
their viewers. For example, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has one of the biggest (if not THE
biggest) cultfollowings.Itsfanslove tosubmerge themselves into the film more so than somebody
whojustwatchedthe filmforfunwould.There are now midnightshowingsof the filmwhere people
dressup infull costume andreallygetthemselvesinvolvedwithit.The message that a film gives off
isimportantas manypeople perceiveitinlotsof differentways.There are manydifferent ways that
youcan findoutaboutfilms.These includefilm magazines, social media, web apps and blogs. I like
to watch the advertisementsonYouTube before Isetoutto watch a filmtosee whatit is goingto be
like, 99% of the time I can't watch a movie unless I have watched the trailer for it, the other 1% of
the time I will have watchedafilmwithoutwatchingthe trailerfirstisif it'sinFilmStudies in college
and we have no time toresearchit onthe internet,onlyhearthe wordsspokenfromourtutorabout
a brief synopsis of the movie.
Active spectatorshiptheorysuggestseachvieweris different and many people in the audience will
questionthe filmandreactto itin differentwaystoothers,notjustblindly accepting the messages.
It also takes into account pre and post viewing experiences. Media literacy With me, I have
subscribed to a website which is home to a TV series called The Vampire Diaries. I receive emails
from them giving me teasers into the next episode or behind the scenes, as well as other
informationsuchasrelease datesforbox setsandmore. Other movies have their own social media
sites,suchas twitter and facebook pages as they are the most popular social media sites around in
today’ssociety,therefore makingmore peopleaware andhavingmore people to promote to. There
are societies and conventions in which people gather to share their interests.
Reception Theory
ReceptionTheoryReceptiontheory is the way that the audience responses to the message hidden
within the text constructed by the producer or director. This is a meaning that the producers and
directors want to convey across to the audience. This can be done in many ways either through
character dialogue or actions within the film. Stuart Hall is the man behind identifying the three
types of audiences reading messages. Dominant – Is about what the audience wants to hear from
people andagreeingbutwithlimitedknowledgeonthe subject..Negotiated – Is when the audience
agrees,disagreesorquestionsa political speech or news broadcast. Making their opinion based on
previously held news. Oppositional - is when the audience recognises the dominant message but
rejects it due to culture or political opinion. People with this opinion usually have made up their
mind on the person or subject. This is based upon our age, gender, ethnicity, social class.

9. A walk among the tombstones – didn’t meet expectations
A walkamongstthe tombstones trailerwasabiggive awayto what we wouldsee inthe movie itself,
the trailerwasactually pretty good, it had a good storyline to it but as soon as I watched the movie
with my media class I was disappointed mainly because of the poor storyline, when I watch a film
withLiamNeesonin I expect a really chunky detailed storyline but there wasn’t one in this movie,
for example when the bad guys kidnapped women I expected to see more, drag it out a little but
theydidn’ttheycutit shortand everythingthatthe trailer shown us was basically the whole movie
so itgave a lotaway. Not forgettingtheygave LiamNeeson’scharacter a CHILD side kick. There’s no
mysteryandthere’snosuspense soIdidn’tenjoyit,definitelydidn’tmeetexpectations of me or my
peers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTKBowDjMQg