Male Gaze
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Reading The Male Gaze In Literature And Culture
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Author : James D. Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-06
Reading The Male Gaze In Literature And Culture written by James D. Bloom and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries. Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This study recounts how the author’s own coming-of-an-age as a gazer became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O’Brien, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O’Hara, Italo Calvino, John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes, microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification' itself.
The Dominance Of The Male Gaze In Hollywood Films
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Author : Isabelle Fol
language : en
Publisher: diplom.de
Release Date : 2006-03-16
The Dominance Of The Male Gaze In Hollywood Films written by Isabelle Fol and has been published by diplom.de this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-16 with Art categories.
Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The way in which media systems reflect our social environment and specifically how they represent and disseminate gender role models and have a lasting effect on the construction of identity is of long-standing interest both in Gender Studies and in the literary and the visual arts. In order to examine in particular the representation of women in the visual art of popular cinema, The Dominance of the Male Gaze in Hollywood Films will thus focus on the image of women in mainstream Hollywood films. Although media and specifically television and films are often considered to act largely as a social mirror , films in fact often distort social reality and continue to reflect traditional stereotypical gender constructions. In fact, these traditional gender images are not simply mirrors of real life, but also ideological signifiers: In many mainstream films that pretend to depict reality a time lag separates true social circumstances from the film reality the movie produces. Consequently, this time lag also manifest in filmic representations of gender roles means for the women s movement that feminists have hardly been able to enact new images of women outside the patriarchal context of popular films or change female stereotypes and incorporate feminist thought into mainstream films. Thus, mainstream films do not propagate an image of emancipated women, quite the reverse: women are subordinate objects of the male gaze. This general assumption has led to this thesis, which will deal with the question of whether Hollywood films, as representative of mainstream culture, still disseminate patriarchal images of women dominated by the male gaze even though feminist thought has been part of our society for some decades now. Located at the intersection of Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Gender Studies, this thesis will mainly follow the theoretical approach of the feminist film critic Laura Mulvey who developed the concept of the male gaze in her essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema . Mulvey s concept shall contribute to the analysis of the thesis that the images of women in Hollywood films still correspond to conservative patriarchal stereotypes. Within the scope of this still valid thesis, one of the major restrictions was to narrow down the film analysis to merely Hollywood film production. The reason for this restriction is first of all that Hollywood films, representative of popular taste, are globally [...]
The Female Male Gaze And Its Cultural Consumption
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Author : Anke Werckmeister
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-10-15
The Female Male Gaze And Its Cultural Consumption written by Anke Werckmeister and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,0, Free University of Berlin (John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: Framing Reality, language: English, abstract: The study of film has been going on for several decades. During this time, the focus has been, especially in the 1970s, on looking (the gaze) and the spectator in general. Here in this paper I would like to look at the female also a bit on male gaze in connection with the movies Network and Blow Up. This means I will also consider film theory of the 1970s and 1980s but I want to focus my insight on contemporary spectatorship. To do this, I will also give a short overview of historical findings and important authors and their theses and how their theses would work in this day and age. However, my intention is to argue that Laura Mulvey’s thesis that the male gaze focuses on female objects only is partly outdated and that she left the female as a passive spectator, which is not true, because nowadays females are more active than males in terms of identification with their favourite stars on the screen. That identification can take on different levels starting with admiration because of looks, talent or taking them as role models which will furthermore end in consumption; may it be fashion, cosmetics or hairstyles.
Male Gaze
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Author : Joe Treasure
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-08-10
Male Gaze written by Joe Treasure and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-10 with Fiction categories.
David Parker’s new start in LA isn’t going entirely as he had hoped. London feels a million miles away, and even his loving marriage is beginning to look shaky. Drawn, through an alcoholic haze, into the orbit of Astrid and her friends, he spends a night on Malibu Beach that shocks him to the core. With the stakes suddenly raised, David must get his bearings: in love, in the city, and in a new century that seems to be imploding. Funny, deadly, and bristling with energy, this is the story of a man who loses life as he knows it – and sets out to find it again. 'Very funny, sparky and stylish. You won't be putting this book down' Independent on Sunday ‘A unique, persuasive voice. His is a name to watch’ Time Out ‘Scorching. Dark and sad, but equally smart and funny’ Elle
Feminism
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Author : J. W.
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-14
Feminism written by J. W. and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-14 with categories.
In a world, where the Feminist movement involves many voices, many opinions and many experiences, one man faces his greatest challenge... Writing a book on the subject. Feminism: From the Male Gaze, is an amazing piece of prose, brought to us by an author as stunning as he is brave.
Playing With The Gaze In Hitchcock The Experience Of Visual Pleasure In Rear Window Vertigo And Psycho
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Author : Anett Koch
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-06-18
Playing With The Gaze In Hitchcock The Experience Of Visual Pleasure In Rear Window Vertigo And Psycho written by Anett Koch and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: Woman [...] stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer, not maker, of meaning (Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure” 15). Ever since Laura Mulvey published her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” in 1975, feminist film theorists have challenged her assertion that films are directed at an exclusively male spectatorship. Despite the fact that Mulvey herself has revised some of her ideas in “Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946)” (1981), theorists are still struggling to understand if and how visual pleasure manifests itself for female viewers. In classical Hollywood cinema, this visual pleasure is the result of successful audience manipulation. Cinema is often regarded as a ‘narrative machine’ because “the narrative is delivered so effortlessly and efficiently to the audience that it appears to have no source” (Belton, American Cinema 22). As a rule, the film’s artifice is hidden so well that it remains unnoticed by the audience, conveying the impression that the narrative is “spontaneously creating itself in the presence of the spectators [...] for their immediate consumption and pleasure” (ibid.). Thus, cinema’s visual manipulation techniques enable viewers to experience visual pleasure as they enter the world on screen and become involved in the lives of their screen surrogates. Among the many talented directors in the history of film making, Alfred Hitchcock is known for being one of cinema’s most productive auteurs and a pioneer in the field of visual manipulation. Through his way of directing the camera – and with the camera also the gaze of the spectator – his audience not only appreciates the narrative itself but also, and especially, Hitchcock’s technique of storytelling. By means of simultaneously zooming in and tracking out, combined with point-of-view shots and extreme close-ups, the audience assumes the protagonist’s perspective along with a sense of vertigo, guilt and pleasure. Thus, as a director, Hitchcock is like a criminal who makes the audience his accomplice in a crime that is about to unfold in front of their eyes. [...]
The Male Gaze
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Author : Bridget McShane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Male Gaze written by Bridget McShane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Gaze in motion pictures categories.
The male gaze is a phenomenon that continues to puzzle both film theorists and film viewers. Although previously studied and examined by film theorists, the term tends to carry only one definition into modern-day understanding. The male gaze often gets entangled with other terms and phrases such as "voyeurism," "sexualization," "objectification," and "Peeping Toms." While these terms and phrases do contribute their fair share to the overarching concept of the male gaze, I argue that when examined more closely, other types of male gazes lie below the surface. Hitchcock's cinematography undoubtedly captures rather risqué images of female characters, leaving audiences without a choice but to partake in male sexualization and objectification. Yet, his films depict scenes between female and male characters -- either with or without dialogue -- that capture a type of gaze one cannot quite associate with merely male sexualization. From rewatching and analyzing films such as Rear Window, Vertigo, and Psycho, I have created my own terms and definitions of different male gazes that may or may not align with the voyeuristic and innately sexual tendencies associated with the overarching term.
The Male Gaze Meets Modernity
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Author : Roxan N. Alexander-Barr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Male Gaze Meets Modernity written by Roxan N. Alexander-Barr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Sex role in motion pictures categories.
Revisiting The Gaze
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Author : Morna Laing
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-23
Revisiting The Gaze written by Morna Laing and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-23 with Design categories.
In 1975 Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay on the male gaze, ushering in a new era in understanding the politics and theory of looking at the female body. Since then, feminist thinking has expanded upon and revised Mulvey's theory and much of the Western world has seen a resurgence in feminist activism as well as the rise of neoliberalism and shifts in digital culture and (self-)representation. For the first time, this book addresses what it means to look at the fashioned female body in this radical new landscape. In chapters exploring the fashioned body within contexts such as queerness, veiling, blackness, pregnancy, fatness, and criminality, Revisiting the Gaze addresses intersectional debates in feminism and re-evaluates the concept of the gaze in light of recent social and political changes. With an interdisciplinary approach, bridging fashion and fine art, this book opens the door to discussions about the male gaze and the fashioned body.
Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema 1975
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Author : Laura Mulvey
language : en
Publisher: Koenig Books
Release Date : 2016
Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema 1975 written by Laura Mulvey and has been published by Koenig Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Feminism and motion pictures categories.
Since it first appeared in Screen in 1975, Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" has been an enduring point of reference for artists, filmmakers, writers and theorists. Mulvey's compelling polemical analysis of visual pleasure has provoked and encouraged others to take positions, challenge preconceived ideas and produce new works that owe their possibility to the generative qualities of this key essay. In this book, the celebrated New York-based video artist Rachel Rose (born 1986) has produced an innovative work that extends and adds to the essay's frame of reference. Drawing on 18th- and 19th-century fairy tales, and observing how their flat narratives matched the flatness of their depictions, Rose created collages that connect these pre-cinematic illustrations to what Mulvey describes in her essay--cinema flattening sexuality into visuality.