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Ways of Looking: Mulvey and Berger (hashtag send nudes) (Berger and the…
Ways of Looking: Mulvey and Berger (hashtag send nudes)
Mulvey: what is the problem Mulvey is working through? visual pleasure for mainstream Hollywood is a nightmare
caters to a specific type of male fantasy: "the function of woman in forming the patriarchal unconscious is twofold: she firstly symbolizes the castratiion threat by her real lack of a penis and secondly there raiser her child into the symbolic" (14).-- either ladies are a threat who need to be conquored or they are neutralized via maternity
what do we do with visual pleasure: let's change the language and forms of desire: "daring to break with normal pleasureable expectations" (16) change the content and narratives, but also desires/pleasures have a
style
how does pleasure work? "Scopophilia arises from pleasure in using a person as an object" // "developed through narcissims and the constitution of the ego, comes from identification with the image seen" (18) fucntion of sexual instincts and the second with ego libido
1) scopophilia: the pleasure in looking into a private world (17) The dark theater, the fantasy of looking into a private life (17); sets up looking at people as objects
objects are "on display"; coded for male visual pleasure; "women displayed as functioned on two levels: erotic object on screen and in the auditorium" (19)
the ego and a narcissistic form (17)
way out? (what about "the buddy movie": the movie's removal of women where "the active homosexual eroticism of the central male figures can carry the story without distraction" (19)
"erotic boomerangs:" the film calling out the spectator as complicit in the voyeurism?
Birds of Prey: lady cast, directed, and costumed
sexualized men on the TV?: The Witcher? Magic Mmike?
how does this reproduce certain norms:
Berger and the optics of looking
"survey oneself constantly"--like yes. This shapes your day to day life constantly;
how does social media participate in this surveillance.
documentary "Codes of Gender"
naked v nude: Naked is without clothes, and "in the mind of the beholder"; "she is not naked as she is, she is as naked as the spectator sees her" (50)--
"To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized as oneself"--taking nakedness and making you into an object
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we need to change the market to change the culture/content/form