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[302] 2. Scopophilia and the Male Gaze Last Minute Literature
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Laura Mulvey, a feminist film critic from the 1980s, utilises aspects of Freudian psychoanalysis to unpack the objectification of women in film. One of these theories is scopophilia - an experience of visual pleasure through the voyeuristic presentation of another on screen. Mulvey argues that the presentation of women plays into the perpetuation of hegemonic, patriarchal power structures. She outlines that while man is presented as an ego ideal we identify with, woman is presented as only an infatuation, to either distract or motivate her male counterpart. This research is initiated by and based on resources provided by the lecturers at Massey University as part of the course 154.302: Gender and Race in the Media.
Mulvey, L. (1989). Visual pleasure and Narrative cinema. In Visual and other pleasures: (language, discourse, society), (pp. 6-18). Palgrave MacMillan.
Laura Mulvey, a feminist film critic from the 1980s, utilises aspects of Freudian psychoanalysis to unpack the objectification of women in film. One of these theories is scopophilia - an experience of visual pleasure through the voyeuristic presentation of another on screen. Mulvey argues that the presentation of women plays into the perpetuation of hegemonic, patriarchal power structures. She outlines that while man is presented as an ego ideal we identify with, woman is presented as only an infatuation, to either distract or motivate her male counterpart. This research is initiated by and based on resources provided by the lecturers at Massey University as part of the course 154.302: Gender and Race in the Media.
Mulvey, L. (1989). Visual pleasure and Narrative cinema. In Visual and other pleasures: (language, discourse, society), (pp. 6-18). Palgrave MacMillan.
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