Sunday, April 6, 2008
Aha- Take on Me
This is the video from 1985 for Aha's "Take on Me". There are some special effects that were ahead of it's time but the video portrays some classic gender roles. The lead singer Morten Harket is portrayed racing a motorcycle in a comic book and plays the role of the classic bad-guy that girls hate to love. After some second thoughts, the girl reading the comic book joins him inside and they travel through the story partly in animation and in film. Eventually he saves her from motorcycle thugs and they embrace. While the video has aged, the symbols of gender roles are classic and very much alive in music videos today.
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Adrian,
Hey, that video hasn't aged, it's classic! You are correct in pointing out that the gender roles in the film are quite stereotypical or traditional. While part of our purpose in the course is to question gender roles, another purpose is certainly to understand the hold that traditional gender roles have over people all over the world. When we get into the book "Manhood in the Making" we'll look at several cross-cultrual examples.
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