Gaze

was a court painter, hence he is portraying us a luxurious, comfortable lifestyle he enjoyed at court. Self portrait (1797), on the contrary, has no details in the background. Emptiness of the background forces the viewer to focus on Goya's face and gaze, suggesting that the painter wants us to look at him only, at his soul. Goya represents his psychological state to the viewers. The only material detail in this self-portrait is a brooch inscribed with Goya's name upside down. This detail…

to suggest his occupation and time period. Rembrandt was known for creating strikingly realistic portraits, often portraying his subjects with a psychological presence. This is evident in his depiction of facial features, most notably the subject’s gaze. Such qualities are reflected in a variety of Rembrandt’s portraits, such as Self Portrait. Furthermore, French artist Theodore Gericault uses similar techniques in his…

the image, she made the photo her screensaver so she could “stare at her leisure” (Bordo 168). This is the section where she first mentions the gaze which may appear as something direct, such as just the act of looking. Yet, as the essay develops, the idea of the gaze develops as well. She quotes another philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir, who says “the gaze of another is the ‘hell’ that other people represent” (Bordo 171). There’s this idea that once someone looks upon us, we act differently…

definite lack of women in speaking roles or any roles at all. If a women is there, more often than not, they are faced with sexualization. The camera is more focused on the body rather than anything else. This can be summed up in the idea of the “male gaze,” which helps enforce gender roles. In Films, Women make up a mere 29% of all speaking roles and only 16% of protagonist parts according to the documentary “Miss Representation.” That is far from an actual representation of the amount of…

„stumbled upon the film department“ (Scorsese and Brunette, 5) at the NYU. This was something that changed his life and changed his view towards Catholicism. „Scorsese explains a critical element in his own work, and offers an insight into the mystical gaze. ‘I don’t really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane … I believe there’s spirituality in films, even if it’s not one which can supplant faith … It’s as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common…

Foucault’s definition of the clinical gaze allows us to understand and visualize the way in which “modern healthcare” has come to operate. Foucault tells us that under the clinical gaze patients are dehumanized; they are reduced to their ailment, something to be cured or fixed. In the U.S., doctors use their expert knowledge and status as authority figures to establish a hierarchical relationship with patients. This relationship combined with the clinical gaze creates a rigid set of norms for…

Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) is a pseudo snuff film centred on the act of voyeurism. Although, Peeping Tom predates the horror subgenre, slashers, it still upholds the psychosexual elements that reside in such films (Clover). Released in the same year as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Peeping Tom can be cited as the aforementioned British equivalent, as the male central characters seem to share sadistic and psychopathic qualities. This film proves to be a self-reflexive metafilm as it…

children receive from different socio economic status. The injustices individuals endure of having different socio economic status relates one of the five faces of oppression which is marginalization and another term that relates to injustices is white gaze. In order to be just, there has to be fairness when it comes to every factor in the world. When fairness is not included and a more dominant group has power or control, it consequences in an injustice. Individuals from a lower economic…

of the forms mentioned above is also larger than those of the left, and thus also contribute to the heavier visual weight. In terms of movement and rhythm, as a viewer myself, I would first look at the humanoid figure on the right, then follow his gaze to look up to the trees and then to the sky above, then to the door on the left and then to the tree and humanoid figure on the left.…

Gaze duration was the total duration of all fixations on a word before moving eyes to another word. Skipping rate indicated whether the reader fixates on a given word on their first pass through a sentence. Words are more likely to be skipped when they are short, highly predictable in the context, or function words. Fixations were defined using the manufacturer’s default settings which used an algorithm. Gaze duration and rereading duration were based only…