Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Camille Paglia, Laura Mulvey, Sigmund Freud
16 Dec 2018
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Heterosexual male gaze- facilitates desires and alleviated anxieties of this audience. Male protagonist point of view- active females- passive, validate male characters masculinity, women are transformed into an object that is looked at, out of the way when they"re not needed. This matters because everyone is obsessed with media, and characters. Who is in charge of the stories of the movies, what they suggest, convince us of. Our dominant attitude is reflected back to us. We seek approval or validation of who or what we are as a society. Therapy helps (understanding one"s unconscious drives; interpretation of dreams and fantasies can facilitate this process) Content is normalized because films stitch the spectator into the film. Significance of dreams, dreams hold the key to figuring out what ails you. Dreams are where conflict plays out, films with symbols. War movies disperse what bravery is, justified killing. The male gaze, one target audience, only hetero men can relate.
