Laura Mulvey

The video essay argued against Laura Mulvey theory on male gaze and was mainly centred on the article of visual Pleasure and narrative cinema writer by Laura Mulvey. According to Mulvey(1975,p348) “The female is displayed for his enjoyment(connoting male phantasy) and that of the spectator fascinated with the image of is like set in an illusion of natural space, and through him gaining possession and control of the woman within the diegesis”. She went further stating that “in film the women as object

more views on videos. In Laura Mulvey’s essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, that was originally published in 1975, Mulvey makes many claims that are still relevant to today’s media, and especially relevant to the music industry. Many of the claims that Mulvey makes are very heavily supported by the kinds of messages that a popular hip-hop song, “Get Low” by Lil’ Jon, makes. The messages that the song sends speak volumes, and as the song aligns with claims that Mulvey makes, the song becomes

film are often portrayed in a manner deemed pleasurable to the male viewer. Laura Mulvey takes this concept and dissects it within her article “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Mulvey references the term male gaze, “wom[en] displayed as sexual object[s] is the leitmotif of erotic spectacle: from pin-ups to strip-tease, from Ziegfeld to Busby Berkeley, she holds the look, and plays to and signifies male desire” (Mulvey 40). Because of this interpretation it is relevant to examine different forms

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 main intention that I will explore within my essay is how Mulvey and Arnheim’s theories relate

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

seem mysterious entice us, making us more inquisitive. It starts from an early age. In his analysis of scopophilia Freud uses the voyeuristic activities of children, because children are more curious and always want to see what is considered private (Mulvey, L. 2003: 59). The cinema industry has made it easier and appropriate for us to satisfy our curiosity as spectators. This is conventionally done by producing stories, using spaces and people that inhabit the real world, which we can easily recognize

Vertigo as the Archetypal Mystery Christopher O’Neil Introduction to Film Prof. Michael O’Donnell March 16th, 2015 Alfred Hitchcock 's Vertigo is a classic movie of the mystery genre. The film takes what appears to be a relatively conventional mystery plot and enacts a process whereby it proceeds to continually fold it within itself in order to develop a film that appears to change its nature several times, but that nonetheless continues to perpetuate a sense of mystery.

studies of communication The theory I will be proposal in this paper is based on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” by Laura Mulvey. In the “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey clarifys the relationship between the camera, the audience and the sexuality in the psychoanalytic way and how the “pre-existing patterns” curve the nowadays films. Mulvey points out that “the paper intends to use psychonanlysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing

Alyshia Sechoka Dr. Catherine Cox History of Literary Criticism 2 December 2014 Not Just a Pretty Face METHOD Despite how the word may sound, deconstruction means to deconstruct, not to destroy. Deconstruction is always simultaneously affirming and undoing. Deconstruction refers to a technique for reading and analyzing texts developed by Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and others; this, in turn, is connected to a set of philosophical theories about language and meaning. As a result of the popularity

and all from the comfort of his apartment. His girlfriend, Lisa, whom he deems “too perfect” and is unable to commit to her fully, is not as interesting as the lives of his neighbors; that is until she herself becomes interested in them as well. Laura Mulvey and Tania Modleski have both written about Rear Window and the way it either follows the normal gender roles or contradicts them. Despite being interested in similar subject matter, the two women have differing opinions on the approach of the film;