ENG 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Laura Mulvey, John Berger, Bell Hooks
14 Dec 2017
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Surveyor and surveyed within her are two constituent yet distinct elements of her identity o. Surveying is important to monitor how she is seen to others, men and therefore herself. Men act and women appear: men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female o. Thus, she turns herself into an object and most particularly an object of vision: a sight. Become aware of their own nakedness and begin to see each other differently. Mirror is used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. Naked vs. nude: naked is to be oneself. Focuses on hollywood film and how women are subject to the male gaze. How woman and men are seen in film. Mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order. Scopophilia: taking other people as objects and subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze o.
