Taylor Swift, The Man (2020): the music video — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Taylor Swift, The Man (2020): the music video
Lizzo or Taylor Swift
What you need to know
The video for Taylor Swift's The Man, which she directed: she plays a man, transformed by make-up and prosthetics, to expose double standards between men and women.
Media language: mise-en-scène, camerawork, editing and the many intertextual references, and the reveal at the end of the video.
Representation: gender and feminist ideas, masculinity, privilege and power, and how the video satirises them.
Contexts: debates about women in the music industry, including Swift's dispute over the ownership of her early recordings.
Refer to specific shots and moments in your own words; the lyrics don't need quoting.
