Film Studies 1020E Lecture 11: Film Class 11.docx
22 Apr 2015
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Week 14 - introduction to psychoanalytic and feminist film theories lecture outline: Prevalence of psychoanalytic theories in the twentieth century. 1895: lumi re bros. screening and freud"s studies on hysteria. Influence of psychoanalysis on filmmakers and screenwriters. Cahiers du cinema (france) and screen (britain) [whether dream or film there is no one correct reading] [freud had little interest in film, filmmakers began to draw on psychoanalytic theory] [early depictions of psychiatrists were depicted as crazy] Challenging the white, western, middle-class male universal . [perspective was considered universal and sought to be challenged] Molly haskell [reverence to rape], laura mulvey: revealing that the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form (mulvey, visual pleasure and narrative cinema 342) [virgin = revered, whore = reviled] based on challenging, or lack of such, partriarchal norms. Expansion of feminist film theory: spectator studies, semiotics, marxism, psychoanalysis, genre films, third-wave feminism, women of colour, diverse class perspectives.
