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Feminism
- Voyeurism
- Male gaze theory - Laura Mulvey
- Scopophilia

Class structure
- Marxism
- Hegemony


- Put the key scene nearer the start
- Too much retelling of the story - link needed info to analysis
- More micro features
- Superfluous language - takes away from analysis
- Remember to include the ideology and its relevance from the start
- Developed key scene analysis

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