... space. It actively gazes upon the passing stars and colorful planets with awe, taking in the experience whole-heartedly. There is no fear in the eyes of the fetus; instead, they emit a look of sacred naivety. The star child is motionless in his state of complete awareness, and traverses further into the universe with a brave sense of curiosity. In Maya Deren's "Meshes ... the future. The emphasis on the cycle is solidified when Bowman dies after looking at the monolith. He is reborn as the star child, stripped of a mimicked emotional response from his previous lifetime, seeing every exp...

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... pleasurable viewing (Hayward, 2002). According to film theorists, Richard Allen, the male gaze occurs through a form of identification in the male spectator, through identification with the gaze of the male star, looks upon the spectacle of the female body (Allen, 2001). Usually the woman portrays herself on two levels: First being an erotic object for the characters with the narrative, and ... spectator gazing upon the female body (Hayward, 2002). The male gaze is also mobilised through a form of identification in the male spectator, through identification with the gaze of the male sta...

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... "they always need someone to think for them." He has an undeniable power over them and views them as things to be controlled: "Women look into your eyes as if asking to be touched by your look." When talking about the future of his ex-wife, he says she will be lost in the United States " ... objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). One can constantly spot his eyes wandering to a woman's breasts or rear, he spends a whole scene staring at scantily clad wome...

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... " Diary" lead 22% to find MGM and Miramax Pictures equally worthy of their viewing. Twentieth Century Fox came in with 20% of the votes due to box office blockbusters like "Star Wars" and "Titanic," and Universal ended the polling with a sad 12% most likely because of the recent bomb, "The Scorpion King." However, the Academy has never seemed to share the ... the prestige and honor they bring to the shining stars of show business. In the last 75 years, Oscars have been awarded only to the best, at least, in the eyes of the members of the Academy. While those students polled chose Univers...

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