Wednesday 7 May 2008

Combination of animalism and power status..

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Just women under the gaze?

E Ann Kaplan argued that "the male gaze" could be adopted by both male and female subjects. The male is not always the controlling subject and the female is not always a passive object.

I am challenging the idea that the male is not generally not  sexually objectified.

It is widely noted that since the 1980s there has been more displays of the male body in mainstream cinema and advertising.

Wednesday 30 April 2008

Visual Pleasure and narrative cinema- Laura Mulvey

Mulvey notes that Freud had referred to infantile scopophilia-the pleasure involved in looking at others bodies. In the darkness of the cinema it is noted that a person can look at another's body without being seen. This connects to a sense of power whilst looking at another person.

Pleasure in looking has been split between active controlling males and passive female. Traditional films do not allow women to be desiring sexual subjects in their own right.
Mulvey created the term "the male gaze" As men do the looking, women are to be looked at.

Another photo..