Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study film at university.
Session time: Wednesday 5 February, 11.10-11.55
July 21st 2023 was a date that made cinematic history. It was a date that, according to many journalists, ‘saved’ cinema. It was the date on which two of the most highly anticipated movies of the last decade were released – and they couldn’t have been more different. It was the official date on which the cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer hit cinema screens!
One was a 3 hour, historical bio-pic about a theoretical physicist, directed Christopher Nolan (known for The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk and other high-end spectacular movies), the other was billed as a fantasy-comedy film about the fashion doll, Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig – who was little known outside indie circles before her adaptation of Little Women in 2019 – and who remained, at the point of Barbie’s release, very much outside of the mainstream.
We will use the trailers to think about questions like:
- How are these two films different from one another and how do the trailers tell us this?
- How is gender represented in the trailers?
- What do the trailers tell us about the films and their genres?
- What do the trailers tell us about the directors?
- How do the trailers speak to us as audiences?
Suitable for: Aged 16+ pre-university students studying, or with a possible interest in studying, Film, Media and related disciplines. Student groups as well as students and teachers joining individually are very welcome.
For details and to book your place, visit:
https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/film-media-gender-genre-barbenheimer-with-dr-sarah-godfrey-from-university-of-east-anglia/