VCC101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist Film Theory, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey
2 Feb 2017
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Topic: the subject: what does vision make of us? bell hooks (1952-present): us feminist critic, academic, poet, activist. Foregrounds the intersectionality of structures of race, gender and class/capitalism. Lesser importance of author and more on words (text) Diminish position as author/producer by lowercase name (which is her grandmother"s) The meaning of an image is produced through the complex interaction of. Image: france: don"t cover up on the beach (france vs hijab); context: polysemy of. Right to choose marker of faith and identity. Stereotypes can be revised - revisions don"t question ultimate problem. In circulation, it can take meaning outside of producer"s intentions. Viewers can shift dominant- hegemonic and oppositional view. Gaze shaped by the gaze of others. Subject exercise willpower and agency, shaped by world and images. Spectatorship universal, less historical, human psyche, institutional. Jacques lacan (1901-1981): the gaze, mirror stage, imaginary. Developed on the work of sigmund freud. Real what the subject really is or was.
