Voyeurism

Thematic - Polanski’s depiction of Gender Roles and Voyeurism Polanski demonstrates and explores themes of voyeurism and gender roles in his films. Even one of his first student short films Uśmiech zębiczny (translated as ‘Teeth Smile’) (1957) explores these themes. In this short film, the man’s intense facial expressions and eagerness to stand on his toes to look through suggest that sexual desires is a warzone between men and women, and is something that has to be fought for. In this short…

in in most aspects of life, including when analyzing works to delve deeper and gain a better understanding. DeLillo uses Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho as an intertext to his novel Point Omega, to build upon and better analyze the topics of gender and voyeurism that are present in both works. Both of these men have created female characters that are passive and fit the image of weak women in a patriarchal society, while the male characters take pleasure in the women’s presence, but not her intellect.…

implicating a significant secret, and by signifying, in its unfinished state, the uncertainty of her (and George Talboy’s) future. The portrait thus serves as a catalyst; it appears and, in its appearance, becomes vital to the turning of the plot. Voyeurism in Lady Audley’s Secret, pertaining…

notice Elly wore less clothes as she began to get use to me being around. It got to the point where I challenged myself to check out Elly’s body without getting caught. The rush of getting caught is what eventually led to me discovering my kink for voyeurism. One night after Elly finished working out she said she was going to take a shower so she went into her room and closed the door. As I was going to my room down the dark hall I notice a glimps of light coming from Elly’s door frame. It turns…

this ground breaking psychological thriller/horror film to the very end. Hitchcock makes use of motifs and mise-en-scene to explore the key themes and ideas such as duality, voyeurism and isolation, to show how the audience is positioned to see the true nature of the carefully constructed…

The Role of Anonymity and the Justification of Voyeurism in the Apartment-Dwelling World of Rear Window voyeurism noun | voy•eur•ism | \ vwä-ˈyər-ˌi-zəm , vȯi-ˈər- \ a: the practice of obtaining sexual gratification from observing others b: the practice of taking pleasure in observing something private, sordid, or scandalous Do you know the person who lives next door to you? You probably saw them a couple of times in the elevator or the parking lot, maybe even chatted with them. What was…

Hitchcock had many other technical devices that he used in order to grab the viewers’ attention, such as having the audience as a voyeur and the MacGuffin. Hitchcock used voyeurism to blur the lines between the innocent and the guilty, as well to put the audience in a position in which they become personally engaged with the characters of the film. Having the audience as a voyeur, was able to put the viewers in the film as a sense just watching a movie. The viewers were in a way transplanted in…

his neighbors to have murdered his wife. Not being able to provide an eye witness account to what he believes happened he has his nurse stella and fiance to be Lisa he gathers enough probable cause to arrest him.The film focuses on the theme of voyeurism and throughout the film you can see how the camera adds to this effect. Another theme intertwined with it also is romantic involvement…

American critic James Wolcott once said “In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer 's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.” Welcome to my first blog post, in this post I plan to focus mainly on reality TV and how emotion plays such an important part within…

evoke terror and those that ignite horror as he says: “Works of horror are constructed from a maze of alarmingly concrete imagery designed to induce fear, shock, revulsion, and disgust. Horror appeals to lower mental faculties, such as curiosity and voyeurism. Elements of horror render the reader incapable of resolution and subject the reader’s mind to a state of inescapable confusion and chaos.…