Wednesday, 25 April 2018

MALE GAZE THEORY- STUDY TASK 2

VISUAL PLEASURE

LAURA MULVEY 

Paragraph 1: 
-woman's desire
-her use of psyco-analysis as a feminist critical tool. 

Paragraph 2:
-change in cinema, the fall of hollywood 
-the opportunity in contempary cinema for more radical forms of cinema that break away from patriacal influence.

Paragraph 3:
-Freud- three essays on sexuality 
-Explanation of sociophilia and how it relates to cinema

Paragraph 4: 
-Explanation of narcissistic pleasure

Paragraph 5:
-summery of the two forms of visual pleasure and discussion of castration threat

Paragraph 6:
-The roles that man and women play in cinema and spectatorship 
- active male / passive female

Paragraph 7:
-The constant threat of castration and how the male unconcious  relinquishes it. 

Paragraph 8:
-2x case studies - steinburg and hitchcock 

Paragraph 9:
- summery


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