Ten Key Words. . .

1. Active audience theory- This audience theory sees the audience as active participants in the process of deconding and making sense of media texts. This can be relevent to my study because while im talkin about audience i can say how they active audience would consume the text in different ways e.gg. feminist could say that females are becoming more powerful.
2. Binary oppositions- this is a term used by Claude Levi-Strauss as part of his argument that narratives are structured around oppositional elements in human culture. I can use this in my study while i am talking about the narratives that the film follow. For example there are many binary oppositions such as goog vs evil.
   
3. Male Gaze- A term used by laura Mulvey in her essay 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema' to descibe what she saw as the main point of view adopted by the camera for the benefit of an assumed male audience. This will be relevent to my text because i will also be talkin about the objectification of the female characters therefore i can use this term.
   
4. Enigma codes- This is a narrative structure that involves the creation of riddles or problems to be solved by the resolution. I will also be using this while talkin about narrative because the film contains many narrative enigmas for example at the beggning she wakes up in a bath tub naked, this creates questions in the audiences mind as to why shes there, therefore making them want to watch more of the film in order to find out.
5. Feminism- This is a political movement to advance the status of women by challenging values, social constructions and socioeconomic practices which disadvantage women and favour men. I will be refering to feminism qiote a lot in my study and including a number of different feminist and their theories to support my argument that aswell as being represented as powerful women are still objectified in resident evil.
6. Vladimir Propp- Russian formalist writer and folklorist who analysed the structure of folk storiess in his work "The morphology of the folktale". This is relevent to my study because it is a narrative theory which is linked to my text for example Milla Jovovich as the herione and Iain Glen as the villian etc.
   
7. Protagonist- The leading character or hero in the film with whom the audience can identify and from whose point of view the action is positioned often set in binary opposition against the atagonist. This will be a term which i will be using throughout my essay when i refer to the main character who in my text is Alice(Milla Jovovich)
8. Representation- The process whereby the edia construct versions of people, places and events in images words or sounds for transmission through media texts to an audience. This is relevnt to my study because it is linked to my essay question, as i am focusing on the representation of women and whether it has changed, therefore i would be refering to this term quite alot.
   
9. Stereotypes- The social classification of a group of people by identifying common characteristics and universily applying them in an often over simplified and genralised way. This is linked to my study because i will be talkin about the stereotypes that the females in my text are associated with for example sexual objects etc.
   
10. Connotations- A meaning attributed to an image beyond the obvious denotation level. This is relevent to my study because i will be looking at the connotation of my text while analysing different scenes, and talkin about the symbols etc