Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Voyeurism, Oedipus Complex, The Female Spectator
6 Dec 2016
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Therapy helps (understanding one"s unconscious drives; interpretation of dreams and fantasies can facilitate this process) The camera assumes the role of the male spectator. She talks about how visual pleasure is derived and how it distributed among the spectators. Who experiences it and who does not. How movies reinforce the patriarchy in society. Women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, impact. symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions. not maker of meaning. The woman then stands in the patriarchal culture with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic. The woman is a bearer of meaning, as a signifier for the male other, bound by. Female characters are vehicles for male characters to act. They themselves are unimportant except for the male character. Ultimately, the meaning of woman is sexual difference. Her exhibitionism, her masochism, make her an ideal passive counterpart to scottie"s active sadistic voyeurism.
