CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Projective Geometry, Thrall, Altered Images
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Visual pleasure and narraive cinema jones 367. Arisic appreciaion: things do have symbols; these symbols mean diferent things to diferent people. Psychoanalysis, then, ofers a historically located model for understanding how these structures of subjeciicaion work in relaion to visual images and to the visual arts and their insituions . Laura mulvey"s inluenial 1975 aricle visual pleasure and narraive cinema" remains one of the most important atempts to ariculate a contemporary visual theory based on. Freudian psychoanalysis on in this case with the speciically inexorable male gaze". In her 200 essay, the strut of vision: seeing"s corporeal support" copjec also criicizes theorists of photography and vision such as jonathan crary . She notes that crary posits alberi"s crucial 1435 model of paining as a window on the world" as exemplifying a renaissance view (conlated with cartesians) of the image as being in thrall to a gaze outside it .
