ENGFLM 1703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Male Gaze, Castration Anxiety, Auteur Theory
15 Nov 2017
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Women rejected the auteur theory because to be an auteur you need to have directed a lot of films (20ish), so it is usually thought of that men are auteurs. Mulvey summary: phallocentrism depends on castrated women to give order and meaning to world. She bears meaning but does not make meaning ( to be looked at ness and reveals forms of male desire: two roles of women, 1. Castration threat to men (she cannot transcend: 2. Scopophilia: pleasure in looking that treats others as object. Voyeurism at extreme (but also all cinema is voyeurism: preoccupied with castration anxiety so investigate her to demystify. Vertigo, twin peaks, criminal minds: fetish to deny castration (cu distracts us from the problem)- cult of female star; often outside linear time. Woman is erotic object for characters: 2. Woman is erotic object for the spectator: narrative, diegesis, and verisimilitude (believability, narrative: forward momentum is associated with male because active agent.
