W6: Seminar Reflection

After the seminar we had to reflect back on all of the lectures that we had, considering how they could relate to our chosen text.

I found quite a few topics/ themes/theories related to Metropolis:

Initial Notes:

• Industrial Revolution - fear of technology, masses, social revolution, 3rd Reich, style development.
• Gender Roles and Representation - women signals (moral tale, whore vs mother) display.
• Consumers - control of media (social side), not docile, revolts.
• Creative Industry - style, 3rd Reich

Related Theories:

• Marxism - social masses, control of media
• Althusser - reality?
• Laura Mulvey - Gendered Gaze - camera angles/moves, roles. Representation of women.
• Structuralism and Post Structuralism - meaning there or just personal perception?
• Industrial Revolution - consumer culture, style, art development.
• Adorno and Horkheimer - consumer/ viewer as docile
• Walter Benjamin - active consumers, hard to keep down/persuade, social.