ENGL 2231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Narcissism, Scopophilia, Jean-Luc Godard
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Every edit is a lie jean luc godard. Editing tricks the audience into believing in the world of the film. There"s no such thing as an innocent frame. Low angles stress power for a character. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) specific ideas about gender. (cid:1) (cid:1) Mulvey"s theory of the gaze is about how film form expresses very. Confers meaning, lends structure, establishes power relationships (cid:1) (cid:1) and teaches us how to understand the world of the film. Mulvey"s premise: women are bearers of meaning, not the makers of meaning in classical hollywood film. Classical hollywood cinema: baseline style of american film and its gaze is thus the norm. Scopophilia: baking as pleasure, women acceptable, idealized and immobilized. Identification: narcissism, identification with the image seen, forgetting the world. The male gaze: gaze of the spectator and that of the male (heterosexual) characters in the film are combined. The power of looking: male active, female passive (cid:1)
