2. Laura Mulvey
'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'
Laura Mulvey is a feminist. The 'Male Gaze' occurs when the audience views the film
or clip in the perspective of a man. The scene would focus on a woman's curves which
puts you in the perspective of the male and shows that they gain pleasure from this.
However the 'Male Gaze' can only be made with added editing such as slow
motion. This gives women a representation of being objectified as they're admired for
their physical appearance.
3. John Berger ‘Ways of Seeing’
Berger tells us about how women are represented. He believes that this is
determined by what an individual knows.
He argues that the real meaning of images has been changed by photographic
reproduction which has been detached from the place and time in which it made its
first appearance.
When works of art are presented as works of art their meanings are mystified, making
us draw fewer conclusions from history.
The impact of photography
By reproducing the image, the camera multiplies and breaks up the meaning.
Therefore images are timeless. Reproduction disconnects the meaning from a
painting.
He believes that the value still lies in the original image. It brings the painter and
the viewer closer together because of the traces left by the artist.
4. John Berger believes that men and woman have different roles which they represent
in society. Men are given a sense of power whether it be economically, physically or
morally.
Men show what they can and cannot do where as women show what can or cannot be
done to her.
He distinguishes the difference between nudity and nakedness.
Nakedness is being seen as oneself, whereas nudity is being seen by others and
recognised as an object instead as oneself.
A naked body has to be an object of gaze in order to become a representation of
nudity. The nudity is a form of art.
