Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema - Laura (referenced below)
Notes for the chapter read
Notes for the chapter read
Women are seen as phallic symbols, erotic objects - Pleasure as a radical weapon
Looking itself is seen as a source of pleasure - fulfilling your desire
Scopophilia - Freud's belief about taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze - His particular examples centre around the voyeristic activities of children - they always want to look and find out about other peoples bodies, so we are looking as a form of erotic pleasure.
Mainstream film focuses its attention on the human form
Women are simultaneously looked at and portrayed, there appearance is coded for strong and visual impact.
A lady's visual presence can tend to work against the development for a storyline, freezing the flow of any action in movements of erotic contemplation.
References
http://www.composingdigitalmedia.org/f15_mca/mca_reads/mulvey.pdf
References
http://www.composingdigitalmedia.org/f15_mca/mca_reads/mulvey.pdf
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