Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Laura Mulvey, Heterosexuality, Commodity Fetishism
11 Apr 2019
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It really made her essay so important is that she suggested that this division of active and passive roles was also reflected in watching and being watched. The male gaze: the female character in film narrative is, an erotic object for the characters within the narrative to view. A question of power: the male gaze: this structure is a question of power, men look at women. In the 40 years since mulvey wrote many criticisms and questions have been raised about. To be aware of the way in which its structured but also to a certain sense discount that and not buy into it completely. Reading practices: dominant or hegemonic readings, receive dominant meanings, accept and apply those meanings, represented identities are taken up , negotiated readings. Mit 1020e: conscious and unconscious levels of interpretation, actively struggle with dominant meanings, makes room for different subjectivities, identities and pleasures, oppositional readings.
