Laura Mulvey

1. Define in one detailed page each of the following four (A thru D) approaches to film analysis. Be certain to identify any individuals associated with each approach. Be thorough in your answers. Auteur Approach: This is a filmmaking theory in which the film director is perceived a creative force in the motion picture. The theory has its bearing form France in late 1940s.Auteur theory as was named by Andrew Sarris, an American Film critic is an outgrowth of Andre Bazin and Alexandre Astruc…

with language and form, attempting to communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through destabilising techniques such as gaze, self-reflexive construction, parody and pastiche, reflecting the postmodernist theories of Laura Mulvey, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. These challenges to certainty are exemplified in Sally…

The plot: It describes a decaying building that has four apartments and is run by a supervisor named Abbas Agha. Abbas intends to own the building and resell it that is why he stops the tenants from repairing the building. It is ruined after a rainy day and the municipality informs the residents of the building that their apartments will be approved to them by mortgage. The main characters: Abbas Agha: the owner of the building, and his mother who is a housewife with traditional value. Mrs…

How and why has the representation of women changed in films since the 1980s? “There is no such thing called unmediated access to reality” (dyer 1993),this essay will be discussing women’s role in film between the 1980s to the 2000s, how it has changed and why. I will be using a Big Eyes, 9 to 5 and Alien as an example to show how female characters were represented and the difference in their contribution to the narrative. Firstly representation means to depict or to show an image of something…

Psychoanalytic analysis is an approach to analyzing media artifacts in order to understand how the human drives for pleasure and desire play a role within them (Ott & Mack, 2014). The main premise of psychoanalysis is that people are behaving in a certain way due to the unconscious desires, needs and fears. One of the psychoanalytic elements important to the mass media communication is the male gaze theory. In this paper, I will explore how the male gaze is challenged and why are there…

Women have always been a significant and influential part of society, so they have always been an integral part of media. The mass media plays a very important role in the creation and perpetuating of gender stereotypes and roles. Representation of women in British media has always depended on a variety of factors such as political situation in the country, social opinions and other things. In this essay I would like to describe and analyse how women’s representation has been changed in Britain…

and Robert ‘seat[ing] himself on a chair before [the portrait] for the purpose of contemplating [it] at his leisure’, calls into play the ‘hierarchized paradigm of male gazer/female object’ which gave men power over their subject. Of this gaze, Laura Mulvey surmises: ‘In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly’. Lady Audley’s…

provide a wide safety net. The third parties are the key individuals required to prevent mass shooting and they include family members. The third parties are important as they are likely to have knowledge of offenses likely to be committed (Rozel, & Mulvey, 2017). According to mental illness professional, most of the mass murderers are likely to leak information…

Introduction: The cinematic text of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) is one that places its viewers in a tactfully contrived and theatrically constructed domain: a domain that only becomes comprehensible to us through Orlando’s instances of self-reflexive narration, through the omniscient narrator that privileges Orlando’s narrative perspective, and through a camera lens that constructs and emphasizes Orlando’s body as the starting and focal point of that narrative. From this highly…