Year 12 ATAR English
THE RED PILL
This subject guide is to support your Year 12 ATAR ENGLISH documentary study of
The Red Pill
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Last updated 6 June 2018
by V.Bright
Wider Reading
Media Response to The Red Pill
Buckmaster, L. (2017, June 18). The Red Pill: I watched it so you don’t have to. Daily Review. Retrieved from https://dailyreview.com.au/red-pill-watched-dont/61240/
Chung, F. (2017, June 15). Seven forces Facebook to remove Sunrise interview with The Red Pill director Cassie Jaye. News Limited. Retrieved from http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/seven-forces-facebook-to-remove-sunrise-interview-with-the-red-pill-director-cassie-jaye/news-story/4af823200a65df31925e5e2f6ebe1dbe
Corbett, R. (2017, June 15). Gender debate: Everyone deserves to be heard. The daily telegraph. Retrieved from https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/gender-debate-everyone-deserves-to-be-heard/news-story/7178f22db5792e13f0db56c6a8068b38
Crabb, A. (2017, April 22). The Red Pill ban: an absurdity only online activism could create. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved from https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-red-pill-ban-an-absurdity-only-online-activism-could-create-20170421-gvpd1l.html
Gillespie, K. (2016, October 26). Why Australian Men’s Rights Activists Had Their Bullshit Documentary Banned. Vice. Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/3bwvqb/oh-no-the-australian-premiere-of-the-red-pill-was-cancelled
Hildebrand, J. (2017, June 16). Why ban a film just because we don’t agree? News Limited. Retrieved from http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/why-ban-a-film-just-because-we-dont-agree/news-story/4f50f7d8d494d60decbbbc203b08cd04
Morgan, J. M. (June, 2017). The Red Pill Challenges Free Speech. Blasting News. Retrieved from http://uk.blastingnews.com/opinion/2017/06/the-red-pill-challenges-free-speech-001782795.html
Walsh, K. (2016, October 13). ‘The Red Pill’ only makes worse the divide between men’s and women’s rights activists. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-capsule-red-pill-review-20161008-snap-story.html
The Issue – Men’s Rights.
Men’s Rights Movement. (2017). In Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from Opposing Viewpoints database.
Documentary – Codes and Conventions
Moon, B. (2008). Mise en Scene. In Viewing terms: A practical glossary for film and TV study (pp. 108-111). Cottesloe, W.A: Chalkface Press.
Videos
The Issue
TEDx Talks. (2017, October 18). MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men’s Rights movement | Cassie Jaye [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY
Jaye. C. (n.d.). The red pill: raw files [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7HeX2SUI9v84DMIawkSBzLRANIc9RQ7t
ABC. (2018, June 18). Q & A: Being careful, North Korea and culture wars. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4846357.htm
Tilley, T. (2017). Hack Live: Is male priviledge bullshit? Retrieved from https://iview.abc.net.au/programs/hack-live/DO1627H002S00#
Note: This episode of Hack Live directly refers to The Red Pill in the last ten minutes of the program. Watch the whole espisode or from 59.00 min.
Media Response
Jaye, C. (2017, June 11). Australia’s ‘Weekend Sunrise’ hates a movie they haven’t seen (The Red Pill) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvLsslFEv7k
Jaye, C. (2017, July 12). The Project’s shameless false portrayal of “The Red Pill” movie. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdGMY8DAb68
News Bite Global. (2017, June 14). Andrew Bolt interviews Cassie Jaye |After ‘Hostile’ Australian Media [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5y-BZyOxDg
Mise-en-scene
Bonnell, D. (2015, June 15). Mise-En-Scene [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVeVOvX0AFM
Gaming Oblivion. (2015, June 3). Wes Anderson & Mise-En-Scene [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCaMMfp8C10
Other related videos
The Matrix: The pill scene
Wachowski, A., & Wachowski, L. (Directors). (1999). The matrix [Video file]. Retrieved from ClickView database.
Other supporting material
PBS. (2015). Media Literacy Questions for Analyzing POV Films. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/povdocs/2015/11/media-literacy/
Credits
The Red Pill documentary poster [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.weekendnotes.com/the-red-pill-documentary-film-review/