the ‘male gaze’ has been applied to feminist studies of the media. “One thing I really envy about men‚ ’ a friend once said to me‚ ’is the right to look ’ (Dyer 1982) Johnathan Schroeder posited ‘...to gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies psychological relationship of power‚ in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze.(Schroeder‚ 1998)’ Keeping this in mind‚ in Laura Mulvey’s article ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’‚ she proposes that the male gaze is paramount
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Male Gaze in Vertigo Several film theorists have used a variety of tactics and view points to analyze feature films since their inception. One of the most prominent theorists of those that analyze films from a feminist perspective is Laura Mulvey. Mulvey is famous for her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema‚” which presents an array of theories involving the treatment of women in films. Arguably the most notable idea presented in Mulvey’s work is the existence of the “male gaze” in
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determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female figure which is styled accordingly.” (Mulvey 750) Mulvey refers here to classic Hollywood cinema. Is her analysis still relevant? Discuss in relation to films from the classic era and contemporary cinema. Refer to films screened in this unit and films of your choice with attention to mise en scene and narrative structure. Laura Mulvey identifies certain patterns in narrative cinema regarding the model of power between the gaze and the subject
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Assignment: How have women been portrayed through photography? 16/01/2009 How have women been portrayed through photography? The gaze deals with how the audience views the people presented in visual culture‚ in this case‚ adverts‚ magazines and Cinema. The ‘male gaze’ is the male ability to exercise control over women by representing them in visual means as passive‚ sexual objects of male desire. The power of men over women has always existed. They are seen as the more powerful and clever species
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THE MALE GAZE THEORY AS PORTRAYED IN AMERICAN PIE I. Introduction The position of women in the society at present has changed gradually in the last few centuries. The role of women‚ as dictated by the society‚ is perceived by how they’re presented. Since the last three centuries‚ women have always been viewed as just housewives and objects of perversion. Media is one of the factors why women are perceived as secondary to men. This is why media has a major influence
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Ch. 3- Modernity 1. “ The gaze‚ whether institutional or individual‚ thus helps to establish relationships of power” (Sturken and Cartwright 111). I chose this quote because of the fact that it is true. Once the gaze was virtually absent from descriptions of art‚ except as an arrow in the quiver of ekphrasis. In the Imagines‚ Philostratus notes when gazes are returned or reflected (as in the case of a painting of Narcissus)‚ but he is not concerned with the narrative potential of gazing
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theories. Concepts such as the gaze and scopophilia were introduced in the analysis and study of films‚ notably from individuals such as Laura Mulvey‚ Gaylyn Studlar and Gilles Deluze. Laura Mulvey uses Freud’s psychoanalytic theories and concepts as “political weapons” to argue that cinematic spectatorship is influenced by patriarchal society (Mulvey‚ 746). Women in films are often used to depict in voyeuristic and fetishistic aspects‚ two modes of the male gaze‚ throughout mainstream cinema.
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and Narrative Cinema" is that Hollywood narrative films use women in order to provide a pleasurable visual experience for men. The narrative film structures its gaze as masculine. The woman is always the object of the reifying gaze‚ not the bearer of it (this has something reminiscent of John Berger’s "Ways of Seeing") The cinematic gaze is always produced a masculine both by means of the identification produced with the male hero and through the use of the camera. Mulvey identifies two manners
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Laura Mulvey ’s article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" argues that in classical hollywood cinema there exists a different viewing expierience for male and female spectators. explain the basis of the theory. Do you agree? Since 1970 ’s Laura Mulvey has been regarded as one of the most famous and well known feminist in film critic. through out histry‚ women ’s body has been used as a vision of pleasure by men. women ’s bodies have been used to make profit for the males sexual desire. the women
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art critic’s perspective by the name of Mara Miller. Miller expounds on this observation by Berger in an essay entitled “Art and the Construction of Self and Subject.” In this essay‚ Miller makes the claim that women are not the object of the male gaze by referencing several tablets created in the style of Ukiyo-e as supportive of her thesis. Her thesis asserts that a self neither split nor devalued can be derived from the analysis of Japanese art and can be evidenced in
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