FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Toni Morrison, Hogwarts, Hillary Clinton

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

Laura mulvey, visual pleasure and narrative cinema (1975) Changed the way film studies critiqued films. Studied the role of women in classic hollywood films, very different context from today. Argued principerly, viewers are engcourgaed to identify the hero of the film the male, and the women were passive, and primarily goal was just to be gazed at, not as doers, or thinkers. Three gazes according to mulvey: gaze of the camera: traditionally mostly masculine, controlled by a man. Only 4 women were ever nominated as directed and only one women won as a director for oscars. Men create more universal films (men the most generic human being) while women would create only films for women: the gaze of male character male character watching, the gaze of the audience. Forced to identify with the gaze of the camera and the male character. Our line of vision controlled by camera.