CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Voyeurism, American Apparel, Camcorder

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3K03
• Professor: Dale Shin

Document Summary

Earlier in the course we introduced this discourse of the mass audience suggests that audiences/readers/spectators are uncritically and abide popular media texts. Her notion of the gaze, between the spectator and the gaze she is considered with gender, specifically cinema women representation. Men are placed in the position of the looker both inside the film and outside : appears in two places in the scene of cinema male spectator is located inside the film and outside the film. Inside: there is a spectator within the film: outside: we are all positioned as male spectators, it"s impossible to look at a film except. Both male protagonist represented within the cinematic text, and the viewer looking at it from from the perspective of the male looker. Mulvey focuses on narrative films to make the point that even examples of visual culture that are organized around delivery of a story, end up reproducing the gaze (skipped)