... film can be understood to have an extremely similar nature. In "Rear Window", Hitchcock highlights the pleasures which are derived from the position of privilege maintained by the spectator. Utilizing Laura Mulvey's essay, "Visual Pleasures of Cinema", film's scopophilic allure is outlined. Mulvey draws upon psychoanalytic theory and posits that voyeurism and narcissistic identification are the two main sources of ... This is perfectly conveyed in the instance where characters, Jeff and Lisa, report their suspicions about Thorwald only to be presented with debunking evidence by Lieutenan...

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... the crisis of masculinity that occurred in America in the era immediately after the Second World War. This paper will examine key arguments put forward by leading theorists such as Laura Mulvey, Elise Lemire, John Belton and Tania Modleski to elaborate upon the intentions and complications of voyeurism in Rear Window. However, as well as the historical information of 1950s American ... Belton argues that "he opts for a one-way relationship based on voyeurism instead of a two-way relationship rooted in mutual regard, recognition and concern; he would rather look than love" (4). Laura Mul...

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... look at these women as attractive and sexually appealing; clearly with the male audience in mind. Three views exist on how film can portray women's sexuality and objectify them. In Laura Mulvey's essay, she discusses how we as a society must eliminate the modern film process and how this will be the only way we can finally free women from being sexually ... as well as with the male behind the camera. Many think that by simply hiring more women in production and artistic jobs that this will miraculously solve the problem. In Laura Mulvey's The Male Gaze, she describes this in her article...

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... of many prohibited sexual fantasies: Literary studies on audience perception and the gaze ballooned during the 1970s when film theorists began applying the theory of psychoanalysis to films (Hayward, 2002). Laura Mulvey, together with other feminist film theorists, developed this theory to describe the pleasure derived from the character"s gaze within the film and, also, the pleasure derived by the spectator ... in the Sun and Barbarella even though it was a good example of the male gaze, she was still in control of the men. After much argument by opposing film theorists, Laura Mulvey w...

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... he offers sexual exchanges for return of the piano to which Ada asserts her control by consistently bargaining with him. Campion also portrays Ada's powerful character through her free sexuality. Laura Mulvey in her essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema states that 'in a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female ... ...

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