The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross and released in 2012 is a revolutionary cinematic piece. A very pivital moment in the film is that of the reeping when a male and a female candidate in district twelve is selected to represent them at the 74th annual Hunger Games in the capital. Through the use of mise-en-scéne, cinematography and sounds of sequences of the film it develops themes, character and narratives within the film, which confront issues of gender both complying and defying the dominant filmic modes of representing gender.
1.Mise-en-scéne plays a large role in the formal elements of the film. The staging is carefully arranged to paint a very similar scene to that of a Nazi concentration camp. There is a speration of the males …show more content…
The Hunger Games overall contests dominant cinematic discourses surrounding gender. The selected scene of the reaping is a prominent example of the blurring of gender sterotypes. There is Katniss in the first prtion of the reaping playing the submissive feminine role of participating in the spectacle then breaking rank to protect Prim and volunteer illustrating her maternal insticts. In this sequence Katniss breaks the gender norms by illustrating masculine qualities in terms of her hard facial features seen when the camera pasns across the stage after hers and Peeta’s names have been called. The general themes of gender are futher blurred through out the film as Katniss is often seen wear and participating in masculine acts. Her costuming throughout the film is a method of demonstrating the public spectacle the directior wants the audience to see. Throughout the film Katniss often wears trousers and boots whilst both hunting and participating in the games giving a profound sense of masculinity to the film’s main character. However at the same time she is seen wearing dresses not only in the reaping but also in the interviews with Ceasar pre and post games giving off a sense of feminity. The contrast between the two very gendered roles create a blurring of gender identies as the main lead carries both defying for the majority of the film the duration the dominant filmic modes of representing …show more content…
The film itself is revolutionary as it addresses dominant filmic modes of representing gender by having a main female lead and lesser male supporting leads but still at the same time manages to coincide with masculine discourses of the cinema and have a male lead present at pivotal sequences of the movie thus surrendering to dominant discourses of having a male
1.Mise-en-scéne plays a large role in the formal elements of the film. The staging is carefully arranged to paint a very similar scene to that of a Nazi concentration camp. There is a speration of the males …show more content…
The Hunger Games overall contests dominant cinematic discourses surrounding gender. The selected scene of the reaping is a prominent example of the blurring of gender sterotypes. There is Katniss in the first prtion of the reaping playing the submissive feminine role of participating in the spectacle then breaking rank to protect Prim and volunteer illustrating her maternal insticts. In this sequence Katniss breaks the gender norms by illustrating masculine qualities in terms of her hard facial features seen when the camera pasns across the stage after hers and Peeta’s names have been called. The general themes of gender are futher blurred through out the film as Katniss is often seen wear and participating in masculine acts. Her costuming throughout the film is a method of demonstrating the public spectacle the directior wants the audience to see. Throughout the film Katniss often wears trousers and boots whilst both hunting and participating in the games giving a profound sense of masculinity to the film’s main character. However at the same time she is seen wearing dresses not only in the reaping but also in the interviews with Ceasar pre and post games giving off a sense of feminity. The contrast between the two very gendered roles create a blurring of gender identies as the main lead carries both defying for the majority of the film the duration the dominant filmic modes of representing …show more content…
The film itself is revolutionary as it addresses dominant filmic modes of representing gender by having a main female lead and lesser male supporting leads but still at the same time manages to coincide with masculine discourses of the cinema and have a male lead present at pivotal sequences of the movie thus surrendering to dominant discourses of having a male