ENGL 2P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Castration Anxiety, Voyeurism, Scopophilia
18 Mar 2017
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The symbolic order ) to produce a feminist critique the way those principles are embedded in film, and therefore culture: film form encourages: Scopophilia ( gaze theory, which argues that we take pleasure in voyeurism) Moral ambiguity (24) of looking is related to castration anxiety (being afraid to be punished for looking); threat of woman is neutralized if woman is punished/save or made not real, into a fetish (21); Identification as a form of intentional misrecognition (we take pleasure in idealized versions of the self on screen): argument: in classic film, the object of the gaze is female and the subject that is identified with is male. Film constitutes a kind of secondary derivative space. Film reflects society in this particular model of thinking. It"s a screen not just for society but reflects the subject as well. Page 2086- it is said that analysis destroys beauty : mulvey is trying to make her point very forcefully.
