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Title: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema


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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
  • Laura Mulvey

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  • Social unconscious reflected in film
  • Patriarchy woman as castration, lack
  • Dominant order forms unconscious, which
    structures ways of seeing
  • Mainstream cinema reflects dominant ideological
    concepts
  • To be politically and aesthetically avant-garde,
    alternative cinema must react against it

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  • Scopophilia pleasure in looking
  • Objectified other, separation of audience and
    film
  • Recognition/misrecognition identification w/
    human form but seen as more ideal
  • Tension between libido and ego, objectified other
    and other as self.

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  • Uses psychoanalysis for film analysis political
    purposes
  • Expose unconscious of patriarchy in film
  • Film replicates psychoanalytic mirror phase.
  • Temporary loss of ego w/ simultaneous reinforcing
    of ego by identification w/ screen hero

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  • Woman passive, to be looked at
  • Man active, does the looking
  • She exists to represent aspects of the hero, to
    be possessed
  • Body parts emphasized by camera panning
  • Male viewer gains control of female onscreen by
    identification with hero.

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  • Female identification either masochistic or
    sadistic
  • Masochistic identify with woman, see self as
    object of gaze
  • Sadistic identify with man, see woman as
    dominated object.
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