Watch the Superbowl performance by Beyoncé of 'Formation', as this was the day after the single was released and therefore will have intentionally influenced the public at the time.
One of the intertextual references that you need to have knowledge of is the footage about bounce taken from That B.E.A.T, a short documentary.
You can view this documentary on Vimeo. Make notes as you watch to consider how this text affects the meaning of Formation. That B.E.A.T Documentary
You may also like to do some reading around the genre of 'bounce music'. Wikipedia - Bounce
Social and Cultural Contexts
There is also a suggestion that candidates could explore surrealist film and how that might help to explore sexual desire in the music video, by watching scenes from Un Chien Andalou (1929).
Guardian Review of the Un Chien Andalou (1929).
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