FSN 510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: White Slavery, Voyeurism, Motion Picture Production Code
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Repression: denial of the existence of certain thoughts or feelings, or the stifling of alternative gender identifies or sexual orientations. Sublimation: the conservation of a basic drive, such as sexual desire, into a non-overtly sexual form; displacement, socially productive. Motion picture production code: set of industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most united states motion pictures released by studios from 1930 to. Sexual perversions: forms of sexual behaviours that might be considered strange, unpleasant or distasteful; threat to the dominant norm. In film, occur more often in men; women usually suffer the brunt of these perversions. Voyeurism: looking without been seen/sexual pleasure/replaces physical contact. Inequality of the gaze, male voyeur is in control. Fetishism: a form of emotional overinvestment where the fetish object is overvalues because of the meanings or need project object is overvalues because of the meanings or need project onto it. Commodities have magical powers to gratify (marx)