Barbara Cummings
Male Gaze: Thru the Eyes of the Manholder
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The Male gaze emerged from the feminist film critic Laura Mulvey who is foremost recognized for her essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', published in 1975 which was in the influential British film theory journal Screen. It is the depiction of “Mulvey states that in film women are typically the objects, rather than the possessors, of gaze because the control of the camera (and thus the gaze) comes from factors such as the as the assumption of heterosexual men as the default target audience for most film genres. (2) I find to be so true when I think of John Berger saying ’Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. ’ We do learn this in our adolescent years,but it follow us in ways that cannot be overlooked. Most times what we see stimulates one to the fact that we don't want to day, we want to just know we say it.
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In relation to the male gaze and for example Serena Williams the tennis player is one the men love to see yet they do say they find pleasure in looking at her as an object. We see her on the courts, in paintings, and movies and is moved by her appearance, per se shape and actions.
We understand in relation Serena the male gaze is thought to be pervasive when the camera puts her into the perspective of a heterosexual man. Above is an example of how the camera dawdle over It dwales over the curves of her body.
Mulvey stated in her 1981 article, "Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946)," in which she argues a metaphoric 'transvestism' in which a female viewer might oscillate between a male-coded and a female-coded analytic viewing position. These ideas led to theories of how gay, lesbian, and bisexual spectatorship might also be negotiated which is away pop culture is headed today.
- https://youtu.be/W4f-IKxRBTE/Duel In The Sun (1946)
In pop culture in the way we see it John Berger Ways of Seeing says that an image is presented as a work of art, the way people look at it is affected by a whole series of learnt assumptions about art. For example Beauty Truth Genius Civilization Form Status ~ Taste” etc.” I agree that the past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is.Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.
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Nakedness truly reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display as we see in pic. John Berger says “To be naked is to be without disguise”. To be naked one has to be comfortable in their skin and once succeed in the eyes of man it can never be discarded. Some do feel nudity is a form of everyday attire. When it comes to art it is a form that everything must appear as you see it
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Patriarchy is a subject that one eloude from in most household. Feels that is a Bell Hooks in Patriarchy and its frightens to both male and female, and how it is reinforced and supported by women and men. Bell Hooks clearly more focused on how patriarchy negatively affects men, and how feminists ought to frame the struggle to end patriarchy as a struggle for the freedom of men.
Bell hooks: Moving from Pain to Power
Patriarchy as a system has denied males access to full emotional well-being, which is not the same as feeling rewarded, successful, or powerful because of one’s capacity to assert control over others. In the moving from pain to power Bell Hooks says it can truly address male pain and male crisis we must as a nation be willing to expose the harsh reality that patriarchy has damaged men in the past and continues to damage them in the present. When living in a male dominated world the feminist theory says our brilliant critiques of patriarchy with alteratives about mansuclulaity is true in connection to males. There is some truth to being open minded and we do need to image options to patriarchal ruggedness. As Bell Hooks said “We must all change”.
Works Cited
1. That it applies to literature as well as to the visual arts: Łuczyńska-Hołdys, Małgorzata (2013). Soft-Shed Kisses: Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 15.
2. Maura Mulvey (1975). “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. Screen 16 (3): 6-18.
3. bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. New York: Atria Books, 2004. Print.
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