Gaze

Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles follows the life of Jeanne Dielman, a housewife, mother, cook, babysitter, and prostitute. Akerman attempts to eliminate the male gaze and patriarchal forms because she illuminates light on the invisibility of women. The film consists of authentic moments of life displaying Jeanne’s mundane tasks (preparing food and cleaning). In conventional movies, these actions are simply implied and never shown because they do not provoke, or…

the media is being produced through “The Male Gaze”, a concept created by film critic Laura Mulvey in her essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Rachael Sampson explains in a filminquiry.com article that The Male Gaze is “where women in the media are viewed from the eyes of a heterosexual man, and that these women are represented as passive objects of male desire.” (Sampson, 2015) An article published by Project Censored states that “The male gaze in corporate media is also an issue of…

As I was trick or treating, I was thinking of how much candy will be on my inventory. I am assuming the more gruesome and scary your costume is, more than likely you will get more candy. I was cladded in a scary looking werewolf costume. I went up to my first house to get candy from, and they gave me not what I expected, and I had a grimace on my face. I saw a corn maze to get to this big house, and I thought to myself, I bet there is a lot of candy there. So I was gingerly walking through…

World War I and the Conquering Male Gaze in Marianne Moore’s Poem “Graveyard” When thinking of a graveyard, you think of a place where dead people are buried. Through imagery and metaphor, Marianne Moore takes you on a ride of your life capturing life’s hardships along the way. Moore’s early poetry was written during a period of profound political and social upheaval. The women’s suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries culminated in the ratification of the 19th Amendment…

In the classical Hollywood area and beyond there is a clear and obvious depiction of the male gaze in film and it has become particularly synonymous with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, most notably in his 1958 film Vertigo. In many of Hitchcock’s films the male gaze is not only evident but is what contributes largely to the storyline. It is used to highlight the importance of the men and objectify woman to only be seen as an object of male desire. This is successfully done in Vertigo through…

In this article, the researchers studies the effect that an auditory signal has on one’s perception of another individual’s eye gaze. The researchers talk about how people are born with the ability to differentiate between direct and adverted gaze, and this ability becomes increasingly important throughout adulthood. Another important social signal has to do with a person’s auditory system. In infancy, children become sensitive to hearing their own name and to being spoken to in a slow,…

Empowerment and disempowerment using the gaze is manifested as one of the fundamental themes in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as well as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). Written soon after the Second World War, Nineteen Eighty-Four was a novel which portrayed the experiences of Winston Smith, the protagonist and other significant characters who are bound to live within a totalitarian regime in which the powerful forces are punishment and fear. The Handmaid’s…

infants gazes only follow humans? The specific question of their study is will infants gaze follow an object of contingent behavior with or without a face and an object of non-contingent behavior with or without a face? Alternatives: One alternative is that infants gaze will follow an object of contingent behavior with or without a face. Another alternative is that an infants gaze will not follow an object of contingent behavior with or without a face. Another alternative is that infants gaze…

ALS by his neurologist the following month. Steve breathes via ventilator and eats via PEG tube. Steve is mobile with assistance with his wheelchair. His occupational and speech therapist visit him twice a week. Steve currently uses a high-tech eye gaze device that is mounted to his bedroom wall to communicate. The device uses text-to-speech. Steve lives with his wife, Shannon, and three children; Abigail…

article written by Alan Kingstone, Chris Friesen, and Michael Gazzaniga they are discussing a study about gaze reflection and reflexive joint attention. They used two similar people to conduct multiple experiments to test out their hypothesis. In the article, Reflexive Joint Attention Depends on Lateralized Cortical Connections, their hypothesis was that the reflexive attention in response to gaze direction correlates with the hemisphere specialized for processing faces. The people used in…