ENG315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Laura Mulvey, Panopticon, Anne Carson
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Taboo of looking: syrian is warned by the page to not look at the princess too much, wrapped up in his own experience of desire, repeating himself and not listening to the page"s words. Fetishism of the gaze : based upon freudian idea of scopophilia /love of vision, part of spectrum of sexuality, normative form of sexual pleasure until becomes obsessive fixation. Male gaze , the way in which femininity is constructed on screen as object of male gaze associated with camera"s point of view as well as with the male spectator ( visual pleasure and narrative cinema , 1975) Religion: with emphasis on looking, first and second soldier are unable to understand the jews" invisible. God only believe what they can see: repeating racist ideas about primitive religions that use objects of sacrifice, god who cannot be seen and god that feeds off of blood become equally terrifying images.
