Gender and the Gaze

who looks at who ?

Sex: biological
Gender: showing the way we are seen.

biological, sex is fixed.

you see in games the male character is very massacring and the females are very femerin
but we dont want to see massacring females men dont like it and females dont really to.

Gender
Stereotypes the nature/ culture questions

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natural or culture

examples dsmsule in distress so princess peach kidnapped by bower allways saved by the male.
nature

nature is sex (masscaling)


Archetypes and Mythologies

gods that are in art works shown men fighting and the girls are being girls

the way they are standing.

the virgin mother; a mother is god in the eyes of a baby which maybe give a women power, and why isnt there a painting but with a father insted even today when culture is changeing were the fathers are given the mothers role there isnt art to show it .

grayson Perry/ Claire:

befor dressing up as a women would be mad and even now its concided odd but shouldnt be a issue hes a professinal artist its his life he can wear what ever he wants to.

Beyonce super star singer she showes her body off does she have to no. women say they want to show of ttheir bodies I think thats it she knows she doesnt have to she has a world class vioce she doesnt wear skimpy clothes all the time like some artes out there like rhianna her videos past year are so sexual because of her song. which are completly diffrent from beyonce. she sings about love and boyfriends why doent she sing about guns money and all that its not her style. their are a lot of  women that can sing about that.

It is the first important to introduce its past concept: the gaze. According to Wikipedia the gaze is concept used for “analysing visual culture… That deals with how an audience views the people presented.” The type of gaze are primarily categorised by who is doing the looking.

While the ideas behind the concept were present in earlier you uses of the gaze, the introduction of the term the male gaze can be traced back to Laura mulyey and her essay visual pleasure and narrative Cinema which was published in 1975. In its Mulyey states that in film woman are typically the objects rather than the possessors of the gaze comes from the camera (the gaze)  laura mulyey is talking about Hollywood film that the overwhelmingly male watches the female and that it is still happening today which I think is true, Hollywood and the male audience likes to watch the pretty girl just look at the film avengers fall I am man the whole and Hawkeye all male then you get black widow played by the beautiful and talented Scarlett Johansson which is in a skimpy tight black suit. Also for another example of the new Star Trek movie into darkness the whole cast are men except the two women, and one of those women strips down into her underwear she says to turn around and look away when she gets undressed and even then still see her  because the captain peaks and the camera looks at her.

digital arabs

these are just quick thoughts I had in the lecture.

the enemy is the other but we don't want to know the enemy. So we pick some times with people if we like them or not if they are us or a other yes or no.

terrorist always have the ak47 so a stereotypical gun.

if you on the other side you are a bad guy. the issues that you are fighting at don't change to being good we you play the other side.


In real life you cant win afgan. countries have tried for houndred of years only games you can win.


they are shown that they are disorganised messy loud un professional rubish but they are still able to kill us keep up the fight so this isnt true they must be doing somthing right.

9/11 you seen how bad it was which gave you a physical emotion anger with the terrorist which makes you want to play games that you are able to kill them get bk at them.

I'm just thinking about the war in Iraq with Americans are comparing it to call of duty. In call of duty the American side wants to stop the bad guys but in real life, George Bush invaded the country for oil not to stop the bad guys. And the Taleban are a bunch of religious terrorists that do want to destroy the West and control the own country using corruption and violence. So should  America invade the country to stop that not for oil.

hybrid

Blade Runner




hybrid city of the west and east combined is happing as we speek just really slowly.
 in the film is a full hybrid city but in life today its not quite there yet. we have china towns in cities but that about it in the film the eastern is full blown merged with western.
   hybrid speaking  is happing a lot more. all ready you get people speaking different languages chines English Spanish... speaking in a different language is quite common now give it some years and you'l get the hole world doing it I think it will come natural.
So will mixed race will be.

Racism, sexist will all disappear if the West and East truly become a full hybrid civilization the Next Generation won’t be able to be racist because they will be hybrid if they want the cheapest white or just black just Spanish, will be mixed race so we will be able to and hopefully they wouldn't want to.

Thinking about the hybrid civilisation is brilliant to me it’s just a massive positive, why wouldn't it

Quite a cool game idea would be that the world has become fully hybrid. And now the civilization of the human race has changed into a new civilisation, which is at peak of are technology, medicine entertainment and all that. You play as a character that that is Russian and Chinese British American all rolled into one and you live in a city which is like New York but it’s in a completely different country. In the objective of the game that you play a police officer who is trying to stop the last corrupt government which is like the BMP. Also  they are like a cult  also they consist of not just one  race of people but many, so for example French people just want French people Americans just one Americans and Russians just want Russians. They don’t like the idea of people being mixed they want people to be pure as in pure Russian, French, Chinese and so on.

others and colonialism

What is other ?

other is the other thing other person and other part so if you are western the other would be Eastern.

it refers to the opposite to you and you culture

Colonialism ? 

the study of colonizing of European nations

the examination of the impact of European conquest  colonialism and domination  of non-European lands 

  Western people views about Eastian people is very different to what it is for example  food they don't eat what we call Chinese food. 

Representation: 

we look at Indian and see palaces the bright colours oranges yellows blues, the blazing sun the markets.

 and they they see castles, kings and queens. we see the country's as poor even thow they have money. 

history: they are kind of the same western and estern history wars trying to conker land were shipping gods, leeders Queens, Emperors. 

my view about killing children

The issue is all ways going to be bad but you can get away with it in some degrees. As long as you do  it in a right way, best way i think to go around the issues is to make the children something that makes it ok to harm or kill such as a monster and so on.

  its easier to kill children in this way because  this way some of the innocents has been taken away yes its still a child but its a monster child. its no longer innocent, i don't think you can kill a child if its just there for you to kill you have to put a story around it so the only option you have is to kill, or like i said change them.

one other way it mite be ok is if you play a villain so when you for kill a child it shows more evil more.  

issue of killing children

Our Views

•Games are entirely fictional, they may be based off or related to real-world events, but in the gaming world they are fictional.

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•I feel it is not unethical or wrong by any standards to kill children in video games. However there is a line to be drawn, for example if it is just killing for the sake of killing then this is wrong.

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•However if it is some artistic licensing, part of the story or the game is trying to tell a message, for example how cruel the real world can be then this I feel is completely ok, and I dare say should be encouraged.

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•I feel this should be implemented in games, as I think that most games unnecessarily beautify reality, which is just as bad as the idea of killing children in video games.

issue killing of children

•Some games that do include the killing of children are as follows, Dead Space, Dante’s Inferno, Silent Hill, Bioshock, Limbo and many others.

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•Many games that feature the killing of children, we discovered are actually Japanese made e.g. Silent Hill, Zone of the Enders and the Persona Series. 

killing of children issue

Research

•There is a lack of inclusion within video games; this is because almost everyone considers the killing of children inherently wrong.

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This is because children are completely innocent and pure, and cannot defend themselves.

Despite this there are games where you can play as children and kill adults, a good example of this is the game Lucius, where you play as the son of the devil and kill off all of his family without being discovered

•Most games carefully avoid including the ability to kill children, due to the negativity that surrounds the issue.

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•In games where the player has the ability to kill random NPCs, children arent usually included in the game e.g. GTA Series.

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•In cases where children are included in the game, it is impossible to kill them e.g. Fallout, Fable.

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•In games like Skyrim and Fallout, that prides themselves on realism and making hard deacons, the ability not to kill children I feel actually ruins the player’s experience. 

killing children issue

Why did we choose this topic? 

•Its not really a topic in which people would like to talk about it. This is because it involves a lot of negative issues for obvious reasons.

•It is a issue that is very real and that happens everyday, that is why we wanted to tackle it.

 

issue in games killing of children

Quote from Giantbomb.com 

•“Killing children consists often to have the ability to kill them in various ways, that  does not mean we are forced or even suggested to do this in a game. Simply having the possibility to do it with the possibilities offered by the game”

Limited 3D space

in this space the landscape moves not you, you are in a fixs place. the white dots move so you dont have to.

Scrolling with multiple background

Swiching backgrounds, this space is like the one room space but has far more detail realisim and colour.

Adjacent space one room games

this game space creats the sence of travel by moving in and out of rooms, the rooms land scapes change to know u have moved in a diffrent area.