... 's take on the "male gaze" in cinema in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative 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 ... of spectatorship highlight the fundamental role of the spectator in Hollywood cinema. Based on this idea, the presentation of the characters in film is arguably developed with the spectator in mind. Despite the many other factors that constitu...

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