VCC101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist Film Theory, Jacques Lacan, Mirror Stage
25 Jan 2017
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Foregrounds the intersectionality of structures of race, gender, and class/capitalism. Can be seen as a form of expression or a form of oppression. It is deemed oppressive by western ideals to be covered from head to toe. Production/circulation/reception (cid:448)ie(cid:449)ing su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t"s oppositional, negotiated readings of images; polysemy producer works with imaginary ideas about viewing subjects (audience, market) Jacques lacan (1901 - 1981: the gaze, mirror stage, imaginary, developed on the work of sigmund freud, 3 registers of psyche or subjectivity. Symbolic (associated with language and social convention; here lacan was. Subject constituted via the gaze of others. Infant who still lacks motor control, but sees itself reflected - in mirror, in speech, and gestures of others. The self-imagined as more able, whole, unified than it actually is (unrecognized) Viewers regress to the imaginary stage, identify with cinematic apparatus (camera pov, editing) Pleasures of scopophilia, voyeurism come from mastery established via the gaze and the right to look.
