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2. Male gaze - Wikipedia

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   Male-gaze theory also proposes that the male gaze is a psychological "safety valve for homoerotic tensions" among heterosexual men; in genre cinema, the psychological projection of homosexual attraction is sublimated onto the women characters of the story, to distract the spectator of the film story from noticing that homoeroticism is innate to ...

3. ‘Bystanders’ Director Mary Beth McAndrews on the ... - AOL

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   “Bystanders” was written by Alvey, who had been working on and revising the script for about eight years. McAndrews, who wrote her master’s thesis on rape revenge films, quickly understood ...

4. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power - Wikipedia

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   The site's critical consensus states "Although its subject calls for a more incisive treatment, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a worthy primer on the male gaze in cinema." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian calls Brainwashed "fierce and focused... a bracing blast of critical rigour, taking a clear, cool look at the unexamined assumptions behind ...

5. Exploitation of women in mass media - Wikipedia

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   Male gaze theory, popularized by Laura Mulvey, is a concept many feminist film critics have pointed to in classical Hollywood film-making. Laura Mulvey's theory on the Male Gaze describes how viewers respond to visual content. The term "male gaze" describes a sexualized form of seeing that allows men to objectify women.

6. Psychoanalytic film theory - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1970s, Christian Metz and Laura Mulvey separately explored aspects of the "gaze" in the cinema, Metz stressing the viewer's identification with the camera's vision, [8] - an identification largely "constructed" by the film itself [9] - and Mulvey the fetishistic aspects of (especially) the male viewer's regard for the onscreen female body.

7. Ways of Seeing - Wikipedia

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   The series has had a lasting influence, and in particular introduced the concept of the male gaze, as part of Berger's analysis of the treatment of the nude in European painting. It soon became popular among feminists , including the British film critic Laura Mulvey , who used it to critique traditional media representations of the female ...

8. Iris Brey and Totem Films Team on ‘The Female Gaze: A ... - AOL

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   Franco-American critic and broadcaster Iris Brey has teamed with Paris-based sales/production outfit Totem Films to adapt her 2020 book “The Female Gaze: A Screen Revolution” as a nonfiction ...

9. Oppositional gaze - Wikipedia

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   The oppositional gaze is a term coined by bell hooks the 1992 essay The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators that refers to the power of looking. According to hooks, an oppositional gaze is a way that a Black person in a subordinate position communicates their status. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that discusses the male gaze, Michel Foucault, and white feminism in film ...