This is not to say that the object behaves optically as a mirror; instead it means that the awareness of any object can induce an awareness of also being an object. The male gaze[4] occurs when the camera puts the audience into the perspective of a heterosexual man. It may linger over the curves of a woman's body, for instance. [5] The woman is usually displayed on two different levels: as an erotic object for both the characters within the film, as well as the spectator who is watching the film. The man emerges as the dominant power within the created film fantasy The Female Gaze is a Gaze trope about the way a work is presented as from a female perspective or reflects female attitudes, either because of the creator's gender or because it is aimed at a female audience.
Laura mulvey and cinema A society’s culture could be figured out through its administered norms, rituals, literature, film and artistic practice. Therefore the mass culture is the analytic object of feminism. Usually the way a character of a popular film or a novel portrayed and visualized set a standard in the society. In “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” Laura Mulvey depicted how popular cinema objectify women multiple times through patriarchal unconscious what Mulvey termed as “Male Gaze”. Women as the object of male desire and identification are the two way women are presented in the narrative cinema according to Mulvey.
Within this essay, we will look further into the male gaze and what it means and how it is constructed, but also look for flaws in the argument and whether alternative gazes exist, such as the female gaze. The ‘male gaze’ refers to the power in which the male spectator has when they are watching the film. The male actor is often the main focus of the film, his role in the film as the protagonist often makes the male seem powerful and important, whereas the female counterpart often relies heavily on the male and is seen to be vulnerable and powerless. The main focus of the role of women are to be “looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness”(Mulvey, 1975). This view is reiterated by the camera techniques in Hollywood cinema, more often than not the female body is shown with close ups or areas that the male gaze find attractive, such as their breasts, bum and legs.
If the evidence lies in the issue that the film raises, it also lies in the critical and public response to the film. According to Richard Schikel, in his article “Cover Stories: Gender Bender" , two reaction camps can be divided: those who consider the film as a betrayal of feminism, and those who consider the film as a feminist
Her art pertains to surrealism, and relates to fantasy, horror, female sexuality, and the subconscious. Gaskell’s work fixates in the mind somewhere between our dreams and our child-hood memories. Although each of her photo series contains a reoccurring story, she confuses the viewer by simultaneously taking the photographs. The narrative events resemble a journey without a beginning or end, which is what sparks many interpretations. Unlike many photographers, Gaskell’s work is a metaphor for something else and instead illustrates the manipulation, and dark side of adolescent girls by using ongoing themes of identity, sexuality, and curiosity.
The Crying Game manipulates several binary oppositions. The first one, which is so obvious, is male/female. Of course we all know that by nature people’s identities are determined by genitals. In this way, man should find a sexual interest in women and vice versa. But in film we see the opposite situation, which leads us to another binary opposition – sex/gender.
(Al-Ghafari) Some gender roles confine both sexes to traditional duties and responsibilities. Media plays a role in constructing gender roles and in presenting the image of the girl as a woman, and the boy as a man that has different roles. (Al-Ghafari) Media can play a significant part in transmitting a society’s culture to children. The way in which gender is portrayed contributes to the images that children develop about their own roles in society. Gender bias can be seen in books, movies and television shows, for example, evil female characters, such as the stepmother and the ugly witch.
Social Influences on Behavior Megan Libey PSY 300 Ashley Dolecki Social Influences on Behavior can begin in so many different ways. Behaviors can be differential in people’s lives. The two behaviors that will be discussed are homosexual and alcohol and drug use behaviors. First, homosexual behavior has impacted so many people’s lives that there are many problems associated with that lifestyle. There are many different areas of a gay lifestyle like being two males in a relationship, two woman in a relationship, being bi-sexual which means you like both male and female and transgender which is when someone reverses their sex to another, male to female and female to male.
Watching sex on screen is fascinating for me on many levels. At the most primal one is me also feeling sexually aroused as I allow myself to get immersed in the scene and identify with the characters doing the deed. Then I start thinking: what do these actors actually feel or think about while they are fucking? How difficult is it to act out this 'love' scene? Then beyond that, if I am watching the film with other people, I examine their reactions and compare it with mine, to "watch ourselves watch" [255] as Linda Williams (2008) would have put it.
Cinema is about illusion and therefore what is missing from the screen is ‘present’ in some ways in the viewer’s mind. This applies particularly to character and gender depiction within film text. o Examine the characters represented in the film you are studying. Can you identify their class, gender, colour, ethnicity, ideology? Are there any patterns to these aspects of the characters?