ENGL 3Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Magic Mike, Jane Austen, Jacques Lacan

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3Q93
• Professor: Mathew Martin

Document Summary

Engl 3q93 mulvey visual pleasure and narrative cinema. What is ilm doing if it"s a mirror: an alienated/distorted view of society, misrecognizing what reality is. It"s a screen not just for society but relects the subject as well. Page 2086- it is said that analysis destroys beauty : mulvey is trying to make her point very forcefully. The way in which movies set up the audience"s gaze, is geared towards men. And the way women are set up in the ilm are geared towards the looks of the male audience. Films and now we have chick licks what"s the diference: film gets to be universal. Chick flick is a subgenre: this echoes" what lacan was talking about when saying there is no universal female subject, she is always a derivative. Jane austen and charlotte bronte had to ight for women"s novels and literature. Mulvey however is focusing just on the universal. Game, kiera knightly incredibly smart in the ilm)