"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" - Laura Mulvey In her "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey utilizes psychoanalysis theory as a "political weapon" to demonstrate how the patriarchic subconscious of society shapes our film watching experience and cinema itself. According to Mulvey the cinematic text is organized along lines that are corresponding to the cultural subconscious with is essentially patriarchic. Mulvey argues that the popularity of Hollywood films is determined
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In 1975‚ Laura Mulvey‚ a British feminist film theorist‚ introduced the idea of the male gaze in her paper on visual pleasure and narrative cinema. She pinpoints the man as the active pro-tagonist in mainstream Hollywood movies (838). Mulvey believes that the audience‚ regard-less of sex or gender‚ identifies with the “active male figure” (838) due to the means of cine-matography and the rooted patriarchy in Western cultures. Thus‚ women in film become sub-ject to the gaze of the active – the male
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Laura Mulvey made the term “Male Gaze” in 1975. Mulvey plans to use Freud and Lacan’s concepts as a "political weapon” she states. She used some of their concepts to argue that the cinematic apparatus of classical Hollywood cinema unavoidably placed the viewer in a masculine subject position‚ by the figure of the woman on screen as the object of desire and "the male gaze." During the era of classical Hollywood cinema‚ viewers were encouraged
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Thesis Statement Exploring the cinematic gaze and its relevance to contemporary audience. Nurfarahin Amir 10249 (+65)93252485 vultures@live.com A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the
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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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The theory of the gaze‚ as established by psychologists Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan‚ discusses the idea of being the object of a person’s look. When one realizes that he or she is the object of a person’s gaze‚ he or she may experience feelings of anxiety because of the loss of control over one’s own body. In 1999‚ Laura Mulvey builds upon the theory of the gaze in her article “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” by constructing the concept of a male gaze. Mulvey summarizes the notion of the
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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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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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Cartwright examine the relationship between gender and the gaze. The chapter focuses on the work of feminist film theorist‚ Laura Mulvey. Mulvey’s main theory is first coined in her essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ she discusses the ‘male gaze’‚ which is comprised of the outlook that the ‘camera is used as a tool of voyuerism and sadism’ and adopts the perspective of a heterosexual male viewer in order to objectify women. Mulvey argues that cinema caters towards male viewing pleasure and
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