Stereotypes
mise en scene
music
camera work
As a class we discussed the different stereotypes associated a with sexuality and regional identity, these are the ideas we came up with:
Sexuality:
Gay: camp, limp wristed, mincing walk, muscular, gay couple; camp one (f) butch one (m), loud and flamboyant.
Straight: insensitive, loves boobs, reads lads magazines, drinks beer, unhealthy, metro sexual - man who takes care of his appearance.
Regional identity:
Northeners: poor, butch, manual labour jobs, strong accents, tracksuits, uneducated, drinkers, old fashioned, gravy on everything, swearing a lot, funny and crime is common.
Southeners: camp/feminine, business men, suits, country club, golf, The 'Essex' stereotype, expensive and more culture.
Shameless episode one:
Ian - Gay, Lip finds his porn stash, he also has a Kylie poster in his room, which is an unusual idol for a teenage boy. He also cries when Lip finds his porn, showing that his is feminine. However he does where unstereotypically gay clothes such as tracksuits.
Lip - Straight - normal teenage boy, thinking about girls a lot of the time, in the opening sequence he has a sexual encounter with a girl, it is somewhat humorous as the girls mother is in view whilst he is receiving oral sex. Lip then gloats to his brother (Ian) about this sexual encounter.
Steve - Straight - he also has a sexual encounter with Fiona in the opening sequence, this is a much more adult encounter. Romantic music plays when the couple are kissing, and birds sound adding a Disneyesk feeling to the sexual encounter.
Fiona - Straight - she has a one night stand with Steve, there is some intertexuality with Fiona's sex noises with Monty Python adding a random but humerous edge to this sexual encounter.
Sexuality:
Gay: camp, limp wristed, mincing walk, muscular, gay couple; camp one (f) butch one (m), loud and flamboyant.
Straight: insensitive, loves boobs, reads lads magazines, drinks beer, unhealthy, metro sexual - man who takes care of his appearance.
Regional identity:
Northeners: poor, butch, manual labour jobs, strong accents, tracksuits, uneducated, drinkers, old fashioned, gravy on everything, swearing a lot, funny and crime is common.
Southeners: camp/feminine, business men, suits, country club, golf, The 'Essex' stereotype, expensive and more culture.
Shameless episode one:
Ian - Gay, Lip finds his porn stash, he also has a Kylie poster in his room, which is an unusual idol for a teenage boy. He also cries when Lip finds his porn, showing that his is feminine. However he does where unstereotypically gay clothes such as tracksuits.
Lip - Straight - normal teenage boy, thinking about girls a lot of the time, in the opening sequence he has a sexual encounter with a girl, it is somewhat humorous as the girls mother is in view whilst he is receiving oral sex. Lip then gloats to his brother (Ian) about this sexual encounter.
Steve - Straight - he also has a sexual encounter with Fiona in the opening sequence, this is a much more adult encounter. Romantic music plays when the couple are kissing, and birds sound adding a Disneyesk feeling to the sexual encounter.
Fiona - Straight - she has a one night stand with Steve, there is some intertexuality with Fiona's sex noises with Monty Python adding a random but humerous edge to this sexual encounter.
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