Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Semiotics, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Week 14 - introduction to psychoanalytic and feminist film theories lecture outline: Prevalence of psychoanalytic theories in the twentieth century. 1895: lumi re bros. screening and freud"s studies on hysteria. Influence of psychoanalysis on filmmakers and screenwriters. Cahiers du cinema (france) and screen (britain) Challenging the white, western, middle-class male universal . Molly haskell, laura mulvey: revealing that the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form (mulvey, visual pleasure and narrative cinema 342) Expansion of feminist film theory: spectator studies, semiotics, marxism, psychoanalysis, genre films, third-wave feminism, women of colour, diverse class perspectives. Laura mulvey, visual pleasure and narrative cinema . She appropriates psychoanalytic theory as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form (342) The male gaze: scopophilia, the desire to master an object. The audience as voyeur: identification with the male protagonist, active.