CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Literary Theory, Homicide, Dodging Bullets
14 Nov 2017
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Spectatorship and the gaze: audiences, identity, and pleasure. Concerned and interested in how spectator audience relate to movie images. This has been concerned with cinema/film and how moving images on the silver screen create and generate subjectivity. There"s something different to watching something, versus reading it: even if based on the exact same franchise there"s something different looking at those two texts. The idea is that the camera is solvent: in visual texts, we can re-read it multiple times and rework it however the camera is the most important thing coming to cinema texts. Asked how that desire and pleasure that viewer gets from watching film is complicit with power, ideologies, and norms. Film was important medium for transmission of ideology and reproduction of social order: *exam question: film is to screen theory as tv is to cultivation analysis, film is important to screen theory. Not interested in considering real individuals" viewing practices in specific contexts.
