Rip tide and women

Objectification- The process of treating someone as an object.
Male gaze- How men look at women - Lisbet Van Zoonen theory.
Sexualisation- When something is made to look sexually pleasing.
Voyeurism- When people look into other peoples lives.
Scopophillia- When people take pleasure into looking into other peoples life.

In the video Riptide we are positioned as Voyeurs.

How are women represented in Riptide?

• Being inferior to men.
• Vulnerable.
• Sterotypical.

Hows is this video sexist?

• The creepy sexualisation of Women being tortured.
• Women show a lot of skin.
• Intertextual reference to a mental asylum in the torture shot.
• Voyeurism - we watch a women stripping off.
• Emphasis on the woman's behind.
• Close-ups of hands, lips, and eyes.
• Constructs a representation of women.

• Mastershot.
• Makeup is natural but bold with the lips.
• She's unmoving is this shot.
• She's nervous as if she's being watched.
• She's appears older than the traditional pop star.

bell hooks.

• Feminism is for everyone.
• End patriarchal hegemony.

Intertextual references to Italian horror movies such as Suspiria (1976)