... Cinema" relies on psychoanalytic theory to highlight the role of the patriarchal subconscious of society in films, as well as the threat of castration in the presence of a female character in the midst of a male-dominant storyline. Her main argument centers on the assertion of the objectification of women in Hollywood narrative films. Mulvey writes that the characterization of female ... developmental period in which the child develops the self-awareness that is achieved from recognizing itself in a mirror, thus constituting the crucial ego. The pleasurable phenomenon of identifying with ...

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