Gaze

The imperial gaze is defined by Kaplan as, “a gaze structure which fails to understand that, as Edward Said phrases it, non-American peoples have integral cultures and lives that work according to their own, albeit different, logic.” Since the development of film, television, and modern media, the imperial gaze is something that has affected the representation of colonised women. These integral cultures that they have, seen as ‘not normal’ through white eyes, are transformed into the exotic…

Eye Contact: The Power of The Gaze Whilst engaging in social communication, whether verbal or non-verbal, eyes play a crucial role in expressing and identifying certain focus points and attention cues among humans. Direct and prolonged eye contact is more common during communication in European American and Arab cultures, while Latin American, Japanese, and African cultures perceive direct eye contact as an insult (Weiten, 2012). This research paper will entail research wholly from American and…

as gaze and gaze direction plays an integral role in our non-verbal communications with other humans. The reaction of an individual to eye contact or gaze usually depends on the mutuality of the eye contact, such as in positive cases involving sexual of personal interest, or negative cases which someone is glaring or starring with aggression at an individual(Macrae, C.N., Hood, B.M., Milne, A.B., Rowe, A.C., Mason, M.F.,(2002). Being that messages communicated through eye contact and gaze tend…

object of pleasure. Because of this some women try to escape this reality by watching movies, but cinema itself is judging women. We live in such a male gaze driven society that women are now body shaming themselves because of how self-conscious they have become because they always believe they are being judged on their appearance. Male gaze follows the idea that cinema is structured for the male viewer because of how it depicts women on screen usually as second class people which results…

audience. Shekhar Deshpande says that a picture “could appeal to the semi-literate as well as the literate by providing an entry into a field that needs to be taken with caution and respect for the ‘other’ world” (56). Here, in his essay “The Confident Gaze,” Deshpande emphasizes the role a photograph can have on anyone and any one person can interpret a photo differently. Take the picture of my friends and I taking a nap in our swim suites. A person living in the United States and most of the…

Nola Mellon VC3 Literature Review Thesis Prep Has the particulation of the gaze theory influenced the UCD200? For my literature review I will survey various authors that have written about the key issues I will deal with in my thesis. These issues will be semiotics in relation to male and female gender roles, the ideals of masculinity and femininity within a patriarchal society, the origins and history of the gaze theory and its implications in the modern world. In “Doing Gender In Media, Art…

Returning the “Gaze” Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John is an attempt at writing back to a hegemonic colonial discourse. The protagonist of this postcolonial bildungsroman, Annie, is struggling to form an identity while adhering to colonial ideologies forced upon her. However, her ability to write and speak back is limited to the colonial culture, specifically English literature and language. She uses the culture that is oppressing her as a means of liberation. Similarly, Homi Bhabha argues that a…

Throughout the semester We discussed how the “woman” is portrayed in film, and how these representations have influenced the Gaze. Earlier in this semester I analyzed Bell Hooks “The Oppositional Gaze” which connected with me and I decided to expound on this approach to film. I intended to analyses how black female spectator’s perception of themselves and the society can be influenced based on the messages depicted within the film entitled Imitation of Life (1959); What is the role of the…

The male gaze is something I was never aware of before we started studying it in class. The way I define male gaze is a way that visual arts and literature depict women from a man’s point of view. Most Hollywood cinema is set up by males so that is one reason why women are perceived this way if there were more women in Hollywood cinema I am sure they would perceive women differently. Since more men are in Hollywood cinema women usually just exist for the pleasure of men. It’s usually always a…

media communication is the male gaze theory. In this paper, I will explore how the male gaze is challenged and why are there contradictions in those alternatives that require more research. Male gaze within the psychoanalytic analysis Sigmund Freud was a psychoanalyst who most thoroughly developed the concept of the unconscious (Berger, 2013). According to Freud, all humans are born…