Laura Kipnis

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

Using historical and contemporary visual examples, assess whether the male gaze still exists. The male gaze is a concept that refers to how visual culture is designed to please a male viewer by sexually objectifying women. It was first coined by Laura Mulvey, a British feminist film critic, in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). She argues that Hollywood films use women as “erotic objects” in order to provide pleasurable experience for heterosexual male audiences. According

As an author Laura Hillenbrand has made an impact of people's lives, whether it is her power of words that affects the way people feel or the pure power of the true stories she writes about. Hillenbrand has a unique way of writing her books. She suffers from an incurable disease called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which makes people increasingly tired and unable to do most usually easy things. Though being confined to her house hasn't stopped her. She still has outstanding capabilities. For instance

Unsatisfied with simply being in medical school, Morgan decided to look around Nashville to help his community while practicing and studying medicine. Morgan searched for places that would allow him to do both and found that Siloam Medical Center was the perfect place to bridge both of his passions - Christ and medicine. In fact, the mission statement of Siloam shows how perfectly both of these two seemingly unrelated ideas can come together. The mission statement reads, “Sharing the love of Christ

In Linda Williams’ article, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess,” Williams explains how some genres, particularly horror, pornography, and melodrama, fall into the “body genre” category. Horror and pornography serve to bring out certain excess to the audience, such as terror or sexual feeling. Melodrama, however, is generally implemented in various genres that it should not be considered a genre, but an element that it used to provide sensational plot, elaborate settings, and strong emotions

The term "male gaze" coined by Laura Mulvey in her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," draws attention to the role of females in films where women are objectified for the male spectator. “Objectification Theory” by Barbara Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts agree that sexual gazing is what enables sexual objectification. Jean George “ The Babysitter at Rest,” explores the consequences one might encounter as a result of the male gaze. Through her relentless encounter with her lover and boss

The “Male Gaze”. In 1975, feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" defined a new phrase the “Male Gaze”. Mulvey explained the phrase as a filter that is placed onto various mediums such as film that depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of men's ‘male dominance over women’. This gaze according to Mulvey, “sexualizes and objectifies the woman”. The male gaze also affects how women see themselves and how

THE MALE GAZE THEORY AS PORTRAYED IN AMERICAN PIE I. Introduction The position of women in the society at present has changed gradually in the last few centuries. The role of women, as dictated by the society, is perceived by how they’re presented. Since the last three centuries, women have always been viewed as just housewives and objects of perversion. Media is one of the factors why women are perceived as secondary to men. This is why media has a major influence