Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bechdel Test, Ipsos Mori, Mako (Voice Actress)
27 Oct 2017
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Mit 1020 week 6 cultural studies : changing gender codes. The gaze today the female character in the film narrative is. 1 an erotic object for male characters within the narrative to view. 2 an erotic object for spectators in the cinema to view. The audience watches from the point gf view of male hertosexual desire. Women view from a secondary perspective from the male eye laura mulvey"s essay is now outdated there is the female gaze, the queer gaze, the coloured gaze. What about queen spectators and homosexual desire. Doesn"t a female viewer have enough agency to see through the male gaze. Those women must speak to each other. They must speak to each other about something other than men. Which does not exist to support the narrative arc of the male character. Doesn"t assess whether a movie is good or bad. Doesn"t take account of the kinds of roles played by female characters.
