HOFT Class
0May 7, 2014 by sharona
- French riots: everything becomes political
- Critical theory (Frankfurt school)
- Althussas & Habermas
- Psychoanalysis (pseudoscience)
- Mulvey – the male gaze
- Scottie actively re-makes Judy into his desire (Madeleine)
- the male gaze: patriarchal ideology-filmmaker informed by this ideology and thus gaze is inevitably male.
- Role of women = erotic pleasure in narrative and in audience
- “at best, naive, at worst, complicit”
- hermeneutic
- John Berger- Ways Of Seeing (BBC)
- “Men dream of women, women dream of themselves being looked at.”
- Robert Stan?
Category Histories of Film Theory, readings, tutorials | Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, feminist theory, ideology, John Berger, Laura Mulvey, Vertigo
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