Film theory

Laura Mulvey states in male controlled society “the pleasure in looking is split between the active-male and passive-female.” this is echoed in the dominant forms in film. Classic Hollywood narratives traditionally focus on a male protagonist with an assumed male viewer. Men are presented as controlling characters and treat women as docile objects of desire; this applies to both on screen and to viewers. Women are objectified in relation to the male gaze, showcasing women as an image and men as…

Laura Mulvey argues in her essay that women do not see the world as observers and instead, they are only to be seen. Outlets of popular culture, such as magazines, tell women to wear certain clothes, stand with a specific posture, and make a pouty, sexy face to obtain a man. These attributes put together symbolize the straight female. In a heteronormative world, this is what it means to be beautiful and sexually available. Thus, the male gaze is ubiquitous in culture of the past and present.…

“The Gaze,” also known as “The Male Gaze,” is a concept that has been prevalent in the arts for hundreds of years. Throughout history, male viewers have perceived women as taboo, pleasurable, beautiful, offensive, and sometimes all of these at once. These unfair judgments were dismissed far too often. Sometimes, the use of an “imagined spectator,” where the viewer of a piece becomes an essential part of it, draws awareness and strong responses to these issues. In Ways of Seeing, John Berger…

female monster is horrifying in relation to her sexuality. The horror genre has frequently perpetuated patriarchal ideologies with scenes objectifying women using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female…

In visual culture, the male gaze is described as a point of view in which the viewer registers their surroundings in the perspective of a heterosexual male. More often than not, in this point of view, women are seen as objects of sexual pleasure aimed specifically for the male viewer. Media uses the male gaze to entice the viewer into believing that they are in control of whatever situation is being presented. In this response, I will be discussing an advertisement from The Competition Issue:…

b) According to Janice Loreck, “The male gaze takes many forms, but can be identified by situations where female characters are controlled by, and mostly exist in terms of what they represent to, the hero.” Give an example of a work of literature from this semester that directly counters the “male gaze.” Explain how the author does so, where you directly see this in the work, and examine why the author does this. From the introductory line of Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek, it is…

Gaze: I am impressive with the article “Gender Roles in Advertising a lot. As another person, I see a lot of magazines, advertisings, banners, but I have not notice about the “gaze” of the models in all of those pictures until I read this visual essay. It is wonderful to recognize the meaning of the “gaze” and how it affects the viewer. In the Gucci ad we ca she that the woman has a power to control the man and her eyes look like talk to the viewer that: “I sexy and I know it”. How smart it…

Suspense is the feeling when people do not know what will come next. Suspense is an idea of the unknown that is dragged on, and pushed back further and further. It leaves the mind wondering what if, while at the same time, slowly creeping into the mind's darkest fears. Suspense is important when writing gothic literature or thrillers because it enhances the fear factor within each genre of literature, making the story more interesting. Within the movie The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock uses many forms…

Although, the speakers own personality indicated how the information is shared. The topic that I chose for my formative speech is the Pixar theory. The Pixar Theory is a fan theory…

as well as what entails genre theory. With that being said, I went into class last week with a more negative mindset than a positive one, knowing we were going to see a Disney animation. Although, I walked away from the lecture and the movie, in a much more positive and enlightened than I ever expected. Much of this enlightenment was due to the connections to which Moana and cultural studies can be related to one another. Although the impact to which genre theory has did not immediately hit…