Winters Bone - Information

Winters Bone 

Winters Bone is an independent film that is a very low budget which effects the way they are made and seen. 

Winters Bone is a film with a young female protagonist- it deals with family dramas within a very distinct and marginalised regional community l. 

Independent films: mis-en-scene, sound, no cut, no zooms in a fight and long takes. 

Social context: 

-The community is blighted by poverty, lack of opportunity, low education outcomes and sense of separation of mainstream USA infrastructure. 

- Secretive and inward looking with an emphasis on family loyalty and ‘kin’ based around patriciarchal power but dependent upon strong resilient women. 

- Methampthetamine use and addiction has had devestated consequences on families. 

Verisimilitude- appears of reality and similar. 

Things that happen in Winters Bone happens in real life. 

The audience are seen as passive audience and accept the way the film is produced- preferred reading 

Audience theory: hypodermic model- just accept what you are told 

Audience theory: uses and gratification- find out about something and think whether or not you like it or not. 

Cultivation theory: persistent viewing may cultivation a passive or active appreciation of cinema dependent upon indiviadial