Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) - Laura Mulvey Originally Published - Screen 16.3 Autumn 1975 pp. 6-18 http://www.jahsonic.com/VPNC.html I. Introduction A. A Political Use of Psychoanalysis This paper intends to use psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him. It takes as starting point the way film reflects‚ reveals and
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The Visual Pathway 1. Light must pass through the cornea‚ aqueous humor‚ lens and vitreous humor before reaching the retina. It must then pass through the inner layers of the retina to reach the photoreceptive layer of rods and cones. 2. When the photoreceptors are stimulated they transmit impulses to the bipolar cells that project to the ganglion cells of retina. 3. The axons from the ganglion cells converge at the optic disc to form optic nerve which enters the cranial cavity through the optic
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The visual arts are those creations we can look at‚ such as a drawing or a painting. Here is a partial list: drawing painting sculpture architecture photography film printmaking And the decorative arts of ceramics furniture and interior design jewelry making metal crafting wood working Any one of these disciplines is a type of visual art. This is the simple explanation. You can stop reading right here‚ confident that you know what the visual arts are
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Visual Arts: Their Ability to Become a Universal Language Visual Arts: the channel of education‚ through which all men grow and advance in the world‚ no matter their provenance. Why hesitate to admit the true nature of what art really means? For many it means a life. It is important for everyone to recognize and realize that visual arts have‚ indeed‚ become an important part of everyone’s everyday lives‚ and are widely recognized to the extent that they have the ability to be understood as a universal
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Visual merchandising is developing the floor plans‚ lighting effects‚ display the products to attract the customers toward making the purchase. Visual merchandising techniques were first introduced to the world in 19th century‚ when the big establishments like Marshall Field&Co changed their business from wholesale to retail and goods display became necessary to attract the consumers. It includes showing and promoting the products‚ creating an connection between the display and the viewer‚ getting
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A disheveled man carries a scantily clad young woman in his arms while staring intensely into her eyes. She holds his gaze‚ but doesn’t appear to be as interested in him as he is in her. The background is ablaze‚ and the foreground is interposed with three separate images. The first is a group of men on horseback‚ racing down a street‚ the man on the lead horse is approached by a woman in a cascading white gown‚ her arms raised either begging him to stop‚ or bidding farewell. The second image is
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In the painting Las Meninas it displays Infanta Margarita‚ daughter of King Philip IV and Queen Mariana‚ as the center of the painting. You can see the King and Queens reflection in the mirror as if you are in there point of view. Surrounding the princess there are two maids on both sides of her‚ a dwarf‚ a dog‚ a little girl‚ two women off to the side behind the maid on the right‚ and a man in the background that looks like he is about to leave the room or is passing by. Velazquez is also in the
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The statue I chose is titled Apollo Belvedere. The sculpture is a reduced copy of a work most likely made by Leochales in 350-325BCE. The original Apollo Belvedere’s medium was marble‚ but the French copy utilizes bronze with a modern casting method. The statue features an adult male. The figure is relaxed‚ as the muscles remain are not flexed and there is no contortion of the face. There are no wrinkles on the male figures face‚ connoting a young subject. One can infer the figure is holding a bow
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In this picture‚ a young woman is seen from the back investigating a round window. The young lady wears a splendid white dress‚ a shawl hung over her shoulders and a cap with a round overflow on her back. The young woman wears no shoes and is standing on her toes to look into the window. The young woman is standing before a designed plaster wall with paint chipping from its surface. Her body throws a different shadow on the wall‚ showing intense daylight. Her right hand vanishes into the dark as
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This scary painting is about how some people have beliefs of nightmares‚ and how some people also have the belief that every nightmare is a message. The Nightmare simultaneously offers both the image of a dream by indicating the effect of the nightmare on the woman‚and a dream image in symbolically portraying the vision of sleep. It depicts a sleeping woman draped over the end of a bed with her head hanging down‚ exposing her long neck. She is surmounted by a something that seems to appear like
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