formation - Beyonce
Dancing - - Beyonce's movements are aggressive within the video e.g. stamping feet connoting power. - Sticking middle finger up connotes she doesn't care and lack of respect for hegemonic norms in society. - Through the mise-en-scene of her costume she is revealing her body through the use of sexualisation (Colonialism = owning different countries and forming a colony e.g British Empire - sense of ownership = othering "We did it" - talking about where you live - we see the world as a binary opposition - we have britain and then everywhere else is foreign.) Paul Gilroy = Theories of ethnicity and post colonialism. Formation is: - subversive - unconventional - different - atypical - experimental - very different from a conventional music video Set in a lot of different places but specifically New Orleans in State of Louisiana In what ways can audiences respond to the social, cultural and historical circumstances that formation ...