Oral Presentation Part 2 and 3

II. Historical and Institutional Factors-

1. What are the institutional factors that may be important?
   It is a film by Fox Searchlight Pictures
2. as a production of a specific producer (i.e. Walt Disney), institution (Disney Studios), specific economic factors (Studio Film), or a political background? (U.S. politics 1959)

1. What is the film’s historical significance?

 .       as a document of its time? It shows a modern and different perspective of what most people would think of ballet. They would never think of it as crazy, dangerous and wicked world. It changes people’s perspective of ballet in the sense that not everything in ballet is pretty.

a.                as a part of history of film? most people liked it so it’ll definitely influence other films and Black swan would be remember for showing the price of perfection in a sort of documentary style.

III.  Socio-cultural context

1. What is the film’s socio-cultural context?

a.                as a work from a specific country? It’s from the U.S, but not because it’s from the U.S only Americans can relate. On the contrary, anyone from any part of the world can relate. It speaks form the perspective of a ballerina that happens to be American, but ballet itself is a universal language and in the dancing parts it brings something from the dancing world.

2. As a work from a specific culture? It’s the artistic culture, an artist can understand what Nina is going through by pursuing perfection and art has no boundaries.

3. As a work representing a specific part of its society? It represents the artists, the ballerinas directly, but at the same time it represents people who have been confused by their mind and have felt they should do anything to reach perfection.

4. As a work made for a specific audience? It is as much as for ballerinas as for a adult audience. It’s for anyone that can comprehend the way the mind can work sometimes. Even if you are not familiar with ballet, the ballet scenes are very frontal and the audience understands how Nina is great for the white swan, but how it fails practicing the black swan (except the end, of course).

5. As a work made for a specific reason? It was made for the reason that some people have the wrong ideology about ballet. Darren uses implicit ideology in order to change the perspective people have of ballet. He also create this film as a complementary of his past film the wrestler and compare and contract these two types of art.