James Stewart‚ breaks his leg and is confined to a wheelchair. He becomes a voyeur from his window. The film is mainly shot from James Stewart’s vantage point. His view personifies the “male gaze” in Hollywood cinema. Film feminist theorist‚ Laura Mulvey set out to familiarize us with what she calls “the male gaze.” The male gaze is based on Sigmund Freud’s principles. She explains that in film‚ the audience is compelled to view characters from the perspective of the heterosexual male. She
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heroine provokes‚ or rather what she represents. She is the one‚ or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero‚ or else the concern he feels for her‚ who makes him act the way he does. In herself the woman has not the slightest importance." Laura Mulvey’s influential essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” expands on this conception of the passive role of women in cinema to argue that film provides visual pleasure through scopophilia‚ and identification with the on-screen male actor. She
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Yousefian English 271 Essay 4‚ Final draft Literary analysis on “Like Water for Chocolate” Like water for chocolate is a novel is divided in monthly installments‚ with imaginative mix of Romance‚ home remedies and recipes‚ published in 1989‚ it is Laura Esquivel’s first novel which earned the title of the best seller in the author’s native Mexico. The story is set in Mexico at the turn of the 19th century‚ when Mexico is burning in the fever of revolution. Using the techniques of magic realism the
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understood her signs; by the age of seven‚ Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. In 1886‚ Keller’s mother‚ inspired by an account in Charles Dickens’ American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman‚ Laura Bridgman‚ dispatched young Helen‚ accompanied by her father‚ to seek out physician J. Julian Chisolm‚ an eye‚ ear‚ nose‚ and throat specialist in Baltimore‚ for advice.[12] Chisholm referred the Kellers to Alexander Graham Bell‚ who was working with
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Gestalt Therapy Gestalt Therapy I. Summary and Integration of Major Concepts Founded by Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940 ’s‚ Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological - existential methodology which emphasizes experience and experimentation. Gestalt is a German term that means a "complete pattern or configuration" (p. 112). Though there are many modalities and styles in Gestalt therapy‚ it is holistic in its approach uniting mind‚ body‚ and feeling (p. 112). Some concepts at the core
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Adjudication Delineates Ipseity A person’s identity is something that is comprised of the characteristics that define an individual: who they are‚ how they are viewed by others‚ their qualities and beliefs‚ and what differentiates them from other people. One’s identity is shaped by the decisions they make; the choices they make represents their ipseity. The Shakespearean play‚ The Tempest‚ demonstrates how one’s spiteful mentality and pessimistic beliefs defines the abhorrent mindset of the main
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Title Louie Zamperini once said “I was raised to face any challenge.” In the novel Unbroken‚ written by Laura Hillenbrand‚ Louie Zamperini‚ an ambitious WWII veteran‚ survives the hardships of life through perseverance and forgiveness. He struggled through multiple POW camps and an extreme captor‚ the Bird‚ but still managed to become the resilient person that made the impossible‚ possible. He had no regrets in his life because of the thorough decisions he made. By explaining how Louie’s resilient
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Megan Buxton Professor Stockton Communications 297 11 May 2012 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo In Stieg Larsson ’s novel‚ The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‚ his first novel in the Millennium series‚ and a number one national best seller‚ danger and suspense lurk around every corner as Larsson portrays a dark and mysterious crime thriller that differs from most. Mikael Blomkvist‚ a recently discredited journalist‚ is enlisted to the aid of Henrik Vanger‚ an influential business mogul‚ to find his
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Bibliography: Mulvey‚ Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Literary Theory : An Anthology. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing‚ 1998. 585-595. “Kill Bill vol.1 . Writ. and dir. Quentin Tarantino‚ prod. Lawrence Bender. DVD-5.Miramax‚ 2003 “Kill
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the film alternates between footages from the surveillance cameras in Vera’s chamber and these long shots of the camera slowly panning across Vera’s body in a manner that associates the viewer’s gaze with that of Robert’s. The cinema‚ according to Laura Mulvey‚ derives its pleasure from “scopophilia‚” where looking becomes the primary source of one’s pleasure‚ and “voyeurism” in which the people that the viewer sees on the screen do not know that they are being watched. The man represents the looker
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