1. Mulvey and Latin American Cinema
Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". ... This does not conclude that these narratives are free from these misogynistic biases, rather that they are just aware of them and reference them to certain degrees. ... Mulvey is initially concerned with people's obsession with narrative cinema. ... This gives men in the narrative an enormous amount of power in film and their...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate