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Art House - A cinematic production generated by aesthetic and cultural production values rather than commercial consideration.

I wasn't too sure whether i could clearify Kill Bill in the art house genre, but it does have some aspects of a art house film.

Binary Opposition - A term used by Claude Levi-Strauss as part of his agrument that narrative are structured around oppositional elements in human culture, for example, good and evil, life and death, night and day, raw and cooked.

Normally, the dominant character in a action movie tends to be a male, and women tend to be passive and damsel in distress. However, in Kill Bill Uma Thurman is the dominant and main character, as you would expect the hero to be a man instead of a woman.

Feminism - Political movement to advance the status of women by challenging values, social constructions and socioeconomic practices which disadvantage women and favour men.

Kill Bill deals with feminism as women are shown as independent and with a higher status which is what feminst want to achieve: equal rights for women.

Male Gaze - The term used by Laura Mulvey in her essay 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema' (1975) to describe what she saw as the male point of view adopted by the cinema for the benefit of an assumed male audience.

Males find Uma Thurman attractive and would gaze upon her, as they may find watching a smart, attractive and desirable women in control appealing.

Hero - The principal male or female protagonist in any narrative, with whom the audience identifies and who exhibits moral virtues in line with dominant ideology.

The hero is an very important topic in Kill Bill as you tend to find men to be the hero/protagonist, however in Kill Bill its a women and the wudience are thrown off balance and shocked to see a women in power and a hero.

Subversive - Undermining of dominant idoelogy and values.

Kill Bill is challenging stereotype of men being dominant and in control, as Uma Thurman is dominant throughtout the film, as she takes her revenge.

Symbol - A sign that bears no obvious visual relation to what it represents.

In Kill Bill Uma Thurman uses a sword to show how powerful and controlling she is.

Miramax - A film corporation founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 1979, under the ownership of Wlat Disney Studio Entertainment from 1993.

Miramax are the institution thet helped create Kill Bill, as Kill Bill does have a art house feel, as it does use some of the conventions of a arti house film, such as flashbacks, non linear narrative, etc...

Non-Linear narrative - A aequential narrative which doesnt have a striaght beginning, a middle and an end, its interupted with flashbacks, etc...

Tarantino uses a non-linear narrative in Kill Bill, as we see a continuous flashback within both Volume One and Two.

Patriarchy - Male domination of the political, cultural and socioeconmic system.

Kill Bill challenges the patriarchy society, as a male is not the protagonist/dominant character in Kill Bill, and this also occurs in many other films such as' Charlies Angels'