Study Plan and Research

Title:
Why is ‘300’ representing males with old fashion Ideologies?
Is the New Man Dead?

Hypothesis:
Over the years male roles tend to be the same but they have picked up a new type of value in society. Male’s now have interacted with their inner femininity. This doesn’t mean they are ‘Homosexual’. We refer to this as the ‘new man’. Why is ‘300’ representing males in an old fashion way with old ideologies and stereotypes.

MIGRAIN:

M.
1. A shot of 300 men going to war - A patriarchal society
2. Superior shot of the protagonist – male dominance
3. Shot of protagonist leaving family – ideology of the male breadwinner

I.
Warner Brothers Pictures

G.
1. Action/Adventure
2. Film Noir: is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style.

R.
1. Stereotypes of males of their male dominance, they own Sparta also how they are going to war for their country and family. The aggression within the film, typical male testosterone of aggression, war, blood gore etc.
2. How the females are represented as sex objects (modernised), but also as women who stay home and look after the children. Typical ‘house-wife’ stereotypes (old fashion).

A.
Working class males. C1 & C2. Young males aged 15+

I.
1. Aggression, sex objects (males and females), male dominance, house-wife values, breadwinner stereotypes, patriarchal society.

N.
1. Hero-Villain (PROP) Spartans and Persians
2. Good & Bad (LEVI STRAUS) – Spartans and Persians
3. Equilibrium (Spartans and Persians get along) –Disequilibrium (They both go to war) – Realisation (300 Spartans Die) – New Equilibrium (A new army of Spartans is born)
4. But the film isn’t a happy ending, as the 300 Spartans die.
5. Enigma Codes (BARTHES) – What will happen with the new army?

Wider Context (SHEP)
1. The new man being introduced (1980’s – 2008+)
2. Feminism, the Women’s Movement of the 1960s, the War and the impact on Women, women gaining the vote, communities, suffragettes, the education of girls and women. Equal Pay act.
3. Rights for homosexuality
4. The loss of the breadwinner, that the man serviced the woman. They had children. She stayed at home and cooked. ( new women roles)

Other Texts to link to:
Troy
Rocky Balboa
James Bond