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Rear Window And Gentlemen Prefer Blondes On Display
1,486 wordsRear Window (1954) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) have very different plots but still have many striking similarities, such as the manipulation of the spectators gaze. Gaze is the transaction between the screen and a spectator. Two examples of the types of gazes used in these films are voyeuristic and fetishistic. The use of voyeuristic and fetishistic gazes reinforce movie viewing and gender roles during the 1950 s by featuring manipulative and frivolous women as sex objects. Rear Window i...
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Vanessa Ewing Feminism In Mainstream Hollywood Cinema
1,202 wordsMainstream Hollywood cinema has for decades represented an erotic realm by using language and images of our patriarchal culture. It has satisfied and reinforced the masculine ego and repressed the desire of women. Feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey's essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' published in 1975 has proved to be one of the most influential articles in the whole of contemporary film theory. Mulvey's essay is heavily invested in theory. The essay makes use of Freudian psychoana...
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Mise En Scene Male Gaze
2,615 wordsMarlene Dietrich, Madonna, and the Male Gaze in Blonde Venus and Desperately Seeking for Susan As audiences, we subconsciously identify the male protagonists and take female as spectacle during the film watching, due to the social function of narrative films. (Turner 72) 1 Thus feminists have been slashing the objection of female body in? ? male gaze? ? in the narrative films over the decades. Male gaze is in term of the fetishistic scopophilia and sadistic voyeurism. Fetishistic scopophilia dea...
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Left Hand Side Male Gaze
1,946 wordsAn Exploration into the Expectations created by Different Magazine Covers. Magazines are a very widespread and popular media read by hundreds of thousands of people across the world. Why are they so well liked universally? This could be for a number of reasons; firstly magazines cover a broad spectrum of topics- there is something for everyone. (This spectrum can be split up into two different categories; Special Interest e. g. film or music publications, or General Interest magazines, e. g. FHM...
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Vivian The Prostitute Marriage Plot Men
1,137 wordsThe marriage plot has been quite prominent in the film industry over the past few decades. The plot that is characterized by its lead woman getting the lead man and vice versa, has contributed to such movie blockbusters as Pretty Woman and the classic film, Pillow Talk. While both films can be classifies as containing marriage plots, the films share other similarities as well. However, in regards to the marriage plot, Pretty Woman follows the pattern much more fluently and precisely that does Pi...
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