“at the Heart of Representation Are Acts of Deliberate Selection and Emphasis”
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At the essence of representation, composers have the tendency to intentionally select and accentuate motifs of history and memory, combined being the aggregate and interpretations of past events, differing in their credibility and uncontrollable bias. The inevitable interdependency that they have on each other is evident through the acts of deliberate emphasis on symbolism and manipulation of media in ‘The Queen’ (2006) directed by Stephen Frears. This is similar to the visual techniques used by Jacob Stengle in his artwork ‘Colebrook Home’ to stress individual perspectives and memories of their past, as well as the way Ted Hughes purposely reiterates the memories he has of his wife and how they piece together to form their history in his poem ‘The Shot’.
Throughout ‘The Queen’, Stephen Frears knowingly highlights numerous perceptions of not only the life of Princess Diana, but also her death in 1997, which had a significant impact on the entire world, and particularly rocked the monarchy. During the film, the stag was deliberately designated to simultaneously represent Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II. The stag was significantly selected to symbolize Diana’s vulnerability and weakness’ due to the way she was constantly harassed and ‘hunted’ by the paparazzi, which continually occurred right until her death, as well as the commotion caused about the Queen’s reaction to Diana’s death. Diana was constantly chased and exposed by the paparazzi and media, and it got to the point where she had no privacy which consequently lead to her death. These memories are the ones the public are left with of Diana due to the constant publication of her civic and private life, manifest in the constant crosscutting of news footage and interviews emphasising Diana’s constant stalking of the paparazzi. The symbolism used is similar to that used in Jacob Stengle’s artwork, where the proxemics of particular significant parts of the artwork are purposefully done, in order to...
Throughout ‘The Queen’, Stephen Frears knowingly highlights numerous perceptions of not only the life of Princess Diana, but also her death in 1997, which had a significant impact on the entire world, and particularly rocked the monarchy. During the film, the stag was deliberately designated to simultaneously represent Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II. The stag was significantly selected to symbolize Diana’s vulnerability and weakness’ due to the way she was constantly harassed and ‘hunted’ by the paparazzi, which continually occurred right until her death, as well as the commotion caused about the Queen’s reaction to Diana’s death. Diana was constantly chased and exposed by the paparazzi and media, and it got to the point where she had no privacy which consequently lead to her death. These memories are the ones the public are left with of Diana due to the constant publication of her civic and private life, manifest in the constant crosscutting of news footage and interviews emphasising Diana’s constant stalking of the paparazzi. The symbolism used is similar to that used in Jacob Stengle’s artwork, where the proxemics of particular significant parts of the artwork are purposefully done, in order to...