CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Literary Theory, Diegesis, Laura Mulvey
13 Nov 2017
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2. 4 spectatorship and the gaze: audiences, identity, and pleasure. Interested in what makes film diff from literary texts and how pleasure is delivered by cinematic texts and how to can work to influence ideologies. How spectators and audiences respond to visuals etc. Influential approach drawing together marxist, psychoanalytic, and feminist literary theory in analysis and interpretation of film (or cinematic texts ) Screen theory sought to understand how cinema positions spectator through formal structure of film: camera placement and editing of shots crucial to producing viewing subject, how a film is organized. Screen theory interested in spectators" desire and pleasure from consumption of cinema. Asked how that desire and pleasure that viewer gets from watching film is complicit with power, ideologies, and norms. Through this positioning of the spectator, cinema could reinforce and naturalize various ideas about nature, culture, war, race, gender, etc. Film was important medium for transmission of ideology and reproduction of social order.
