ENGL 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Film Theory, Jacques Lacan, Sex Symbol
7 Feb 2018
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Lecture outline: mulvey visual pleasure and narrative cinema , sexual difference n film. Forms of entered difference: was of looking forms of pleasures. The mirror stage: 2strategies to over come castration anxiety. Fetishistic scopophilia: clip from gilda 1946. Mulvey visual pleasure and narrative cinema : written in the 1970s, influence on film theory. Ideas trickled down to popular culture: film as a language, system of representation. Encoded with the dominant values of the society that produces it. Mulvey sees it that patriarchy is a dominant value. Figurative understanding: symbolic castration = loss of power, social powering. Fear of loss of power, coded in gendered ways. According to froed: discovery of sexual difference: when a boy discovers women dont have penises, he assumed they were castrated, associates this lack with being female. Female counterpoint: younger girl realizes she does not have a penis, lacks the power that it represent: girls and women also see themselves as castrated.
