CIN301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Laura Mulvey, Voyeurism, Dorothy Arzner
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The gaze: how cinema constructs/shapes vision of spectator who inhabits the subject position of primary identification. Coordination of three sets of looking relations: Laura mulvey, visual pleasure and narrative cinema . It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. The satisfaction and reinforcement of the ego that represent the high point of film history hitherto must be attacked. (30) The alternative is the thrill that comes from leaving the past behind without rejecting it, transcending outworn or oppressive forms, or daring to break with normal pleasurable expectations in order to conceive a new language of desire (30) Cinematic apparatus naturalizes a masculine, heterosexual gaze in the service of patriarchal ideology. Spectator and camera are supposed to be invisible. The two contradictory pleasures of classical cinema. Voyeuristic scopophilia: pleasure gained from watching others secretly. Predicated upon a separation between self and other. The male looker examining the female object of desire.
