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  • Essay / Movie Poster Analysis - 601

    Media Analysis EssayIntroductionIn this essay, I will analyze three movie posters and their remakes. The three movie posters I'm going to analyze are Psycho, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Thunderball. I will analyze these posters using the methods I learned in media analysis such as feminism, the male gaze, and audience theory, as well as techniques such as camera angles, lighting, etc. Using these concepts, I will analyze these posters and their remakes and see what changes, if any, were between the years the films were released. Feminism/Male GazeThe first film and its remake that I will discuss is Psycho. Psycho was released in 1960, it is an American horror thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. One of the main issues in this film is feminism. There have been many debates about whether or not Hitchcock was a feminist and whether his beliefs related to his films. In my opinion, I think the movie Psycho doesn't include a lot of feminism. I think this poster shows how much the film industry has changed over the past few decades. Although the f...