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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Film
DirectorGil Junger
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Form & technique
  • The film's setting and plot structure
  • Patrick Verona's grandstand serenade scene
  • The film's overall generic structure
  • The diegetic use of music by the band Letters to Cleo → Subcultural Capital
  • The climactic prom sequence → The Enterprise of the Self
  • The social clique structure
Tropes
  • Kat Stratford's "feminist" identity
  • The film's dialogue
  • Patrick's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" serenade → The Male Gaze
  • Julia Stiles's star performance as Kat → The Star Persona
  • The subplot involving Bianca and Cameron
  • Heath Ledger's star-making performance as Patrick Verona
  • Ms. Perky, the guidance counselor → Carnivalesque Inversion
  • Kat's "10 Things" poem

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