Laura mulvey

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) - Laura Mulvey

Originally Published - Screen 16.3 Autumn 1975 pp. 6-18

If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.

There is pleasure at being looked at gives you self confidence in a positive way its erotic which is the part of the make gaze.

Freud isolated scopophilia as one of the component instincts of sexuality which exist as drives quite independently of the erotogenic zones. At this point he associated scopophilia with taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze.

Talking about making a female an object to the sexual male gaze. My opinions on the subject is that yes it’s wrong to turn a female to an object, obviously but men also women can’t really help attraction is a powerful thing, which is very hard to hold back.

Next curious which is a massive part of the gaze. Freud example was the activates of the child and their desire to see and make sure of the private and the forbidden. When you are young you don’t have a sexual desire then as you grow older you start gain the desire of the oppressed sex and to see the privets which is forbidden and to men which makes man wants it more.

He carrys on saying abou narcissistic and other facture like the ego that it is the erotic basis for pleasure in looking at another person as object. Which is some what true everyone has a ego and being looked at is a way to satisfy it even as a object. But there can be a down side the that you can grow a obsession to it you can become a private and obtain an fetish maybe even an addiction, it can happen so for an example of pervades being addicted to strip clubs, which is the biggest male gaze you can get.

Looking at the cinema saying that it’s playing on phantasy and other things. I was more interested in, looking in on a private world. Among other things, the of the spectators in the cinema is blatantly one of repression of their exhibitionism and projection of the repressed desire on to the performer.

When in the cinema you’re looking at the exhibitionist the projection of the repressed desire on the performer, like a gazer in a strip club, its doesn’t have to be a private situation. Just the desire of the performer.

It says the cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking. And film focas attention on the human form scale, space, stories, human face, body.

Jacques Lacan

Talking about when a baby recognizes its self in the mirror and the start of the ego.

Image and self. You can forget about you ego.

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look

Female displayed as an image. For the male gaze,

 

                                                     

Megan fox in transforms is in this film just for male gaze not for her pat and this seen is proof of the looking at the face and female form. Curiosity to see the forbidden “private” . he says who makes him act the way he does. Budd Boetticher in herself the woman has not the slightest importance which is completely true.

Another example, here the male gaze beautiful women in a tight alt fit bending over.