3. Theory
• Psychoanalytic theory – Concepts of Spectator
as discussed by Foucault
– “[W]e cannot know what it means to be a human subject outside of
the discursive practices through which subjective experience and
representations of human subjectivity are enacted” (Sturken &
Cartwright, 2009, p. 102)
• Film Theory
– Judith Mayne “Paradoxes of spectatorship”
– Williams (1993) discussion of Mayne’s (1993)
Competing claims of cinema as a homogenous
institution (apparatus theory) and the
heterogeneity of different spectators.
4. • Aim to analyze the complexities of the subject.
– Competing claims of “woman as image”
• Mulvey (1975) and MacKinnon (1982)
5. Project
• Place juxtaposed figure within a public place.
-Public transportation
• Transited area used by different types of people.
• Reactions of people
– Analyze the spectator
– Analyze the gaze
6. WEST END – DOWNTOWN DALLAS
• Area used by tourists,
students, businesses, bus
connections (ex. Greyhound)
