MPC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Voyeurism, Shirin Neshat, Continuity Editing
2 Nov 2016
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Psychoanalysis theory is appropriate here as a political weapon demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form. The cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking but it also goes further, developing scopophilia in its naracacsistic aspect. Sexual instincts and identification processes have a meaning within the symbolic order which articulates desire. Scopophilic instinct is pleasure in looking at another person as an erotic object. The voyeristic scopopjilic look is a crucial part of traditional filmic pleasure ; can be broken down. Masculinity so fragile : culture, structure, and networked misogyny. Hashtage created to illustrate the precariousness of toxic masculinity which is a masculinity that is threatened by anything associated with femininity. Our new era of gender wars is one that aims a lot of violence toward women in online spaces. Misogyny is naturalized in western culture feminism is also wide spereaf at the moment.
