Honest Criticism
The movies reviewed in the videos include Halloween, 300 and Frozen. They all contain different types of Criticism. The movie Halloween has two different types of criticism, feminist criticism and reader-response criticism. Secondly, in the movie 300 the type of criticism used is reader-response criticism. Finally, from the movie Frozen the type of criticism used is psychoanalytic criticism. I will provide examples of why I feel these types of criticism are used in each of these movies.
In the first video, the movie Halloween is reviewed by Siskel & Ebert. There are different types of Criticism used by the critics in this review. The first type is Feminist Criticism. Mays mentions that “feminist criticism derives from a critique of a history of oppression, in this case the history of women’s inequality” (Mays 2347). An example of this type of criticism comes to mind when …show more content…
The type of criticism used in this video is Psychoanalytic Criticism. The reason I feel this way is because most of the critique is based on emotions and rationale. For example, they talk about how Elsa is a maniac depressive princess with a confusing set of powers. They also talk about Ana who shuts herself inside a castle for three years even though she could leave at any time. They use emotion and make it seem irrational, because you would not normally think of a princess as being a maniac with confusing powers. Or a rational person would not shut themselves in a castle for three years voluntarily. Mays suggests that psychoanalytical criticism evokes, “emotional rather than rational logic, and a pleasure in language all suggested that literature profoundly evoked a mental and emotional landscape, often one of disorder or abnormality” (Mays 2340). Having watched the movie before I didn’t think of the things mentioned in the review, but now I see the movie in a different way and with different
The movies reviewed in the videos include Halloween, 300 and Frozen. They all contain different types of Criticism. The movie Halloween has two different types of criticism, feminist criticism and reader-response criticism. Secondly, in the movie 300 the type of criticism used is reader-response criticism. Finally, from the movie Frozen the type of criticism used is psychoanalytic criticism. I will provide examples of why I feel these types of criticism are used in each of these movies.
In the first video, the movie Halloween is reviewed by Siskel & Ebert. There are different types of Criticism used by the critics in this review. The first type is Feminist Criticism. Mays mentions that “feminist criticism derives from a critique of a history of oppression, in this case the history of women’s inequality” (Mays 2347). An example of this type of criticism comes to mind when …show more content…
The type of criticism used in this video is Psychoanalytic Criticism. The reason I feel this way is because most of the critique is based on emotions and rationale. For example, they talk about how Elsa is a maniac depressive princess with a confusing set of powers. They also talk about Ana who shuts herself inside a castle for three years even though she could leave at any time. They use emotion and make it seem irrational, because you would not normally think of a princess as being a maniac with confusing powers. Or a rational person would not shut themselves in a castle for three years voluntarily. Mays suggests that psychoanalytical criticism evokes, “emotional rather than rational logic, and a pleasure in language all suggested that literature profoundly evoked a mental and emotional landscape, often one of disorder or abnormality” (Mays 2340). Having watched the movie before I didn’t think of the things mentioned in the review, but now I see the movie in a different way and with different