MDSC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Laura Mulvey, Voyeurism, Dialectic
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There is power in looking. (hooks 115: laura mulvey and the male gaze in film. Scopophilia is the pleasure involved in looking at other people"s bodies as objects, especially as erotic objects. = the darkened theatre creates an atmosphere in which the audience can look freely, promotes the voyeurism associated with scopophilia. = for mulvey, in patriarchal society: pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. ". = film presents men as active, controlling subjects and women as passive objects of desire for the men in the story and for the audience. = women are bearers of the look, and are in film only to be looked at. = these relations are created through filmic devices, including plot, camera angles and framing, editing, and sound. = refers to how cinematic language creates a relations of viewing, in which men are structured as active viewers, and women as passive bearers of the sexualized male gaze.
