The male gaze is a concept that was first coined by Laura Mulvey‚ in her book ’Visual and Other Pleasures’‚ in which she suggests that angles and lighting in movies are used to objectify and hyper-sexualise female bodies in order to make them more appealing to male viewers. This concept can also often be applied to artworks‚ adverts and other imagery that we see in our everyday lives‚ from adverts talking about obscure things such as cat food‚ to lingerie and make-up adverts actually aimed at women
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Lester encapsulates the stereotypical gaze of Male > Female gaze. Lester suffers from what appears to be a mid-life crisis and fantasizing about Angela . On the other hand‚ Ricky adopts a voyeuristic gaze when he films those around him (i.e. Jane‚ Lester). However‚ the gaze is not held predominantly by the male viewer. For example‚ Jane turns the camera around back on Ricky. He doesn’t mind because he already
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The results supported the aim‚ showing the existing difference in the number of number of faces recalled with direct and averted gazes. The mean of direct gaze was 5.867 and averted gaze was 5.533. The standard deviation for Direct Gaze and Averted Gaze were equal at 1.922. The level of measurement for the data set is interval. Each of the faces were ones that participants had never seen before‚ establishing equal intervals of recalling them. Although there were factors such as attractiveness‚ race
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Finding the Source of the Power of the Gaze In almost all of literature‚ women are represented as objects of desire. They are supposed to be submissive and their male counterparts are supposed to possess the power. This power structure is ever-present in books‚ photographs‚ and advertisements‚ but especially in film. In the film Gilda (Charles Vidor‚ 1946)‚ the main character and her male counterparts exemplify that women are mean to be recipients of the male gaze‚ and it becomes problematic if these
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recently. And the Eye gaze systems are one of the most pivotal inventions in this context. The Eye gaze System is a communication and control system for people with complex physical disabilities. You run the system with your eyes. By looking at control keys displayed on a screen‚ a person can synthesize speech‚ control his environment (lights‚ appliances‚ etc.)‚ type‚ operate a telephone‚ run computer software‚ operate a computer mouse‚ and access the Internet and e-mail. Eye gaze Systems are being used
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Stylistic analysis of a short story by Saki "Laura" The story under analysis is titled "Laura". It is written by British author‚ master of the short story Hector Hugh Munro‚ better known by the pen name Saki. The very story belongs to fiction genre with a unique touch of mystery‚ psychological themes‚ as it concerned with two main heroines ’ (Laura and Amanda) emotional states. The tone of the story is full of irony and even sarcasm‚ especially in the dialogues and closing lines. The mysterious
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“Globalizing the Gaze” by John Urry is a chapter that discusses the implications of globalization in tourism and travel‚ examining the ways in which tourism has changed since technologies like mobile phones and the internet have pervaded global communities. The chapter chronicles how the nature of tourism has changed drastically with the rise of these technologies and their ubiquity across the planet. For one‚ there is the increased scope of travel- it is no longer restricted to the wealthy‚ white
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Autism A feature of autism are impairments in using eye gaze to achieve joint attention and to understand the mental states of others. There is numerous research to determine how eye gaze can affect social
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604 PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW The Tourist Gaze By John Urry. Sage Publications (28 Banner ISBN o-8039-8182-1‚ 1990‚ 176 pp. (photos‚ (cloth). Massey Street‚ London EClY 8QE) bibliography‚ index) $45.00 University‚ Neil Leiper New Zealand Readers might infer a double meaning from this book’s title. It could refer to the gaze of tourists and also to the tourist‚ Gaze. This would be Henry Gaze‚ a tourist who went into business and helped pioneer the modern form of tour
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UEES | Krashen´s Theory | Theory of Second Language Acquisition | | Gisella Coka | 13/01/2012 | "Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules‚ and does not require tedious drill." Stephen Krashen | This paper is going to talk about Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition‚ which has had a large impact in all areas of second language research and teaching since the 1980s. There are 5 keys hypotheses about second language acquisition in
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