Laura Allen

Renowned feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey, explores how classic Hollywood cinema is shown through a masculine perspective that fetishisizes women as objects of desire. This perspective is also known as the “male gaze”, which creates a voyeuristic and scopophilic layer to the viewing of film. According to Mulvey, “in their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to

To love is to Endure and Within Weakness Gains Strength From the day Tita entered the world, her fate was sealed with the De la Garza’s family tradition, which lead to the cause of her pain and suffering from the hands of her mother, Mama Elena. Tita and Mama Elena’s estranged relationship was oppressed with complications from Tita’s premature birth and the sudden death of her father, which caused Mama Elena to reject her nurturing nature and discard bonding with Tita. Although Tita’s emotions would

Within my Film Theory essay, the two theories which I will be exploring in depth is Rudolf Arnheim’s essay ‘Film as art’ and Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. These two different theories will be applied in relation to Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013). Introduction: In the essay’s inception, an overview of both theories will be established in a summary. Within this introduction, I intend to make my thesis and intentions of the essay’s outcome clear. The

Since Helen Keller’s early years in life she has always been blind, deaf and mute. Members in her family knew there was sure to be many difficulties in teaching her basic life routines, and from where the family stood there was no way to teach her. Helen sometimes got so frustrated she would lash out. Until one day her family, with hopes to teach her, hired someone with experience to help. The teacher's name is Annie Sullivan. Sullivan had some difficulties getting through to Helen, but once she

Advertising is an elemental part of today’s society. It is a profitable industry which influences our lives and lifestyle choices sometimes without us even knowing. Brands tend to use immoral tactics to get the viewers’ attention and a commonly used tactic is the objectification and sexualisation of women. Using three contemporary advertisements as examples, this essay will focus on the objectification and sexualisation of women within the chosen advertisements and the semiotics behind the images

The ‘Male Gaze’ is a phrase coined by Laura Mulvey, in which she examines how through media, the portrayal of women has evolved and is seen through the eyes of the male perspective. After the 1960’s sexual revolution, films started to incorporate women as a more objectified aspect, demonstrated by the visual representation of how they provocatively use their bodies. In this essay we will be specifically examining the ‘male gaze’ in the 1999’s cult classic, “Fight Club” from both the protagonist

The concept of ‘the gaze’ in visual culture can take many forms, but generally it deals with the way in which people look at objects or subjects consciously and unconsciously. This idea can operate through the media, artwork or by simply just looking at another person. However, there has always been a sense of bias in relation to how both men and women are depicted in art. Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres’ The Turkish Bath (1852-1863 illustrates the ‘male gaze’ and the presentation of women in a Turkish

Oscar sees Ellie’s castrated genitals, through the act of ‘peeping’. Taken from the film Let the Right One in by Tomas Alfredon (Alfredon, T. 2008). My analysis of the sequence will be centred on the ideas of voyeurism and fetishism as set out by Laura

Given the closing-in 2016 presidential election, both candidates have been working hard to convince the citizens of the United States that they are the optimal decision for President. Both, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been in constant turmoil in creating promotional advertisements and speeches as to why they should be chosen to lead the country. Hillary Clinton, a long time politician and Secretary of State, who received the unequivocal backing of the current President of the United States

First Lady Michelle Obama has always been one known for her inspiring speeches and her commitment to women’s rights. In Manchester, New Hampshire, she is seen once again standing up for women and for this country by opening the public’s eyes to disrespect Donald Trump has shown for us. Throughout the entire speech the three rhetorical appeals of pathos, ethos, and logos, are all used effectively and powerfully to get her message across. She mainly targets the audience of empowered women but she also