Gender

• Women represent beauty, they are younger - seen as vulnerable and need saving

  • Refugees, represent Europe - need saving by America
• Men are older - seen as more wise, strategic, stronger
• Rick - Use the opening sequence:

  • Mid shot playing chess - an allusion to the calculated and strategic nature of the war
  • Shot by himself (isolated) - reflective of America as isolationist
  • Shadow on Rick's face created by chiaroscuro lighting - he is in two minds, foreshadows his and America's shift in attitudes towards joining the war; 93% didn't want to join the war before Pearl Harbour, 91% wanted to join the war after
  • Camera tilts up - Rick is presented as America and the dominant masculine values (hegemonic)
  • "I stick my neck out for nobody" - isolationist