Rough ideas for coursework titles

1. Quentin Tarantino's influences of films portrayed throughout his own
    -Django: inspired by the 1966 'Django', Franco Nero/spaghetti westerns
    -Kill Bill: Japanese samurai

http://whatculture.com/film/quentin-tarantino-definitive-guide.php/164

2. The portrayal of female stereotypes in Tarantino films/Is Tarantino's portrayal of women supporting feminism or portraying them as macho?
    -Kill Bill
    -Death Proof
    -Pulp Fiction
    - Jackie Brown

    - inglorious bastards 

Jonathan Schroeder 'film has been called an instrument of the male gaze, producing representing women, the good life and sexual fantasy from a male point of view ' aber.ac.uk

According to Mulvey 'the male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the perspective of a heterosexual man' - does this link to the question etc 

http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/11/revenge-of-the-pussycats-an-ode-to-tarantino-and-his-women.html#.VAcuoo2wKsY
http://www.heroinecontent.net/archives/2007/12/kill_bill_vol_1_and_kill_bill.html

3. The stereotypical portrayal of the disabled in films/ does the era/period effect the stereotype of the disabled?
     -What's eating Gilbert Grape, Lasse Hallstrom, 1993
     -Freaks, Tod Browning, 1932
     -Rain Main, Barry Levinson, 1988
     -The Elephant Man, David Lynch, 1980
     -The Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, 2010

http://tabithars.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/portrayal-of-people-with-disabilities-in-film-the-evolution-and-the-stereotypes/


4. Compare the sexualised portrayal of women in Sam Mendes' 'American Beauty' to the portrayal of Orson Welles' 'Lady from Shanghai'
      -Does the period effect the portrayal?

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/10/orson-welles-london-film-festival-lady-shanghai
http://www.filmnoirstudies.com/essays/progressive.asp
http://sbccfilmreviews.org/?p=12163


5. Controversial films: what is it that makes this controversial; the period/era, age, or topic etc?/ Compare Stanley Kubrick's contribution to controversial films in comparison to .. 
    -Lolita, Stanley Kubrick, 1962
    -Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975
    -Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick

http://richflaherty.com/clockwork/controversy.html