Visual Culture Theorists

I dug up my notes today from A Level film and found a few pieces on different theorists. However, the main module I did it on in AS have gone missing and I have probably recycled them. Typical. The below notes are colour coded; green is ones to definitely use and are relevant, yellow are ones to use as backup (they look impressive, but not 100% necessary). 

• Laura Mulvey- 'the male gaze'. Women sexualised for male pleasure. "to-be-looked-at-ness"
• Carol Clover - 'the final girl'. The female protagonist that survives the film (more applied to horror)
• Barbara Creed - 'the monstrous feminine'.
• Helsby - "voyeuristic pleasure"
• Gauntlett - "queer theory". Identities are not fixed. Useful extract.
• Freud - voyeurism (pleasure in looking)
• Vladimir Propp - antagonists vs. protagonists serve narrative function
• Todorov - equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium
• Claude Levi-Strauss - binary opposites
• Lazarsfeld - hypodermic needle theory. Passive audience. media 'injects' ideas.
• Gerbner - cultivation theory. Passive audience. Repeated exposure to same values.

(side note, I couldn't find any particular people to cite about colour theory so the notes above are mostly gender)

Going through my notes, colour seems to link with semiotics a lot with what each colour means. This has made me think of possibly changing my topics. Not quite sure yet.

I have also found useful notes on the Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Surrealism (some gender studies involved) and a few key films in reference to the theories; The Descent, Fight Club...