... 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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... get the car and walks away from the scene slowly, evidently shocked by what she has done. ARGUMENT The gaze theory was written by Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist, in an essay called "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". The gaze takes a psychoanalytical look at the moving ... of the female movie star" However, "Thelma and Louise" present a problem to this theory; "Thelma and Louise" has a huge homosexual audience. Laura Mulveys ideas are very out dated (1975). She does not take into account the female as the spectator nor does she investigate the homosexual male gaze. ... movem...

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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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... , the "bearers of the look."" The film The Truman Show challenges and extends much of the issues and concerns of the feminist analysis made by Berger, Doane, and Mulvey. As Laura Mulvey states in her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,"" females are the focus of attention in cinema; however, The Truman Show contradicts this idea. Mulvey makes the assumption that ... "Hollywood- male character. In cinema, the male figure is understood to be heroic, strong, and knowledgeable, but The Truman Show presents an opposing side to this stereotype. In her essay, Laura Mulvey affirms that,...

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