Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Voyeurism, Deconstruction, Classical Hollywood Cinema

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

The gaze: voyeuristic, gender is a discourse, constituted by texts and practices (pink and blue, sex vs. Ideology (cid:498)unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language o the dominant patriarchal order(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:524) Sex: refers to the biological differences between males and females, and remains consistent across time. Gender: refers to the cultural differences between femininity and masculinity, and is historically specific, changing all the time. Intersects with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, generation, time period. One is scopophilia (cid:523)pleasure in looking(cid:524)(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:524) of the camera itself. Film works to generate and manipulate visual pleasure, especially for the male viewer. Mulvey wants to destroy that pleasure by analyzing it. Classic hollywood obscures the function, movement, and work: how classical hollywood cinema produces gendered subjects. Laura mulvey (1941-) gender: how to fix, voyeuristic scopophilia. Male film spectators gaze at women: narcissistic scopophilia. Pleasure in looking at the human form.