Sin city Key scenes:

Marv wakes next to Goldie’s dead body

John receives a letter with a severed finger inside

Lady from Shanghai key scenes:

Mirror scene – shootout between

Social context at the time:

‘The Lady from shanghai – 1947’

• 3 years after WW2 ended
• Post war anxiety – fear of foreigners infiltrating America
• Golden age of capitalism, 1945 – 1975

‘Sin city – 2004’

• September 11 – 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airlines to conduct a coordinated act of terrorism
• America was struck with a long term anxiety of fear of being infiltrated from the inside
• Idea of law and order being untrustworthy as an easily preventable attack was not handled and prevented

How have representations of women in the Coming of Age Genre changed over time using the films Rebel Without a Cause (Ray, 1955) and Ladybird (Gerwig,2017)?

LadyBird (Gerwig, 2017)

Rebel without a cause (Ray, 1955)

To what extent can films be said to offer an insight into the collective unconscious of their times? Using  the films:

Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)

and

Us (Peele, 2019)

 How have narrative interpretations of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth changed over time using the films Kubo and the Two Strings (Knight, 2017) and The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa, 1958)?

 How the folk horror sub genre has changed over time?

The Wickerman (Robin Hardy, 1973)

Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)

How do the films Guns of Navarone (1961) and Dunkirk (2017) demonstrate how the war genre has changed over time?

Hypothesis: How have representations of LBGTQ characters on screen changed over time in coming of age films? 

Films: Call me by your Name [Guadagnino, 2018],

Rebel Without a Cause [Ray, 1955]