Sunday, November 19, 2006

Laura Mulvey...


Her theory is that women and men both gaze upon each other in sexual context. What May attract the men is Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, as some men might find it attractive to have a controling and attractive female protagonist in a film.
Hollwood female characters of the 1950s and 60s were, according to Mulvey, coded with "to-be-looked-at-ness." Mulvey suggests that there were two distinct modes of the male gaze of this era: "voyeuristic" (i.e. seeing women as 'madonnas') and "fetishistic" (i.e. seeing women as 'whores').
To an certain extent i do agree with Mulvey's theory, women today are still objectified and in other media text aswell, such as magazines. However, the audience are forced to see women through a males prospective becasue majority of the directors are male. On the other hand, women are not the only sex that are gazed upon, women also gaze upon men just aswell: even though women are gazed upon much more than men. So in the end both sexes gaze upon eachother.

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