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Laura Mulvey and Her Relavance to Contemporary Cinema
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Exploring the cinematic gaze and its relevance to contemporary audience.

Nurfarahin Amir

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A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Media Arts.

LASALLE College of the Arts

2012

[pic] Nurfarahin Amir 2012

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Abstract

Introduction

Chapter 1 : the Patriarchal Gaze

1. : Is it male?

2. : Fetishism and voyeurism

3. : the masquerading gaze

Chapter 2: the male body as erotic spectacle – women and sexual looking

1. : alternative gazes

2. : Can women look at men?

2.3: ‘the fourth look’

Chapter 3: Feminist counter cinema and Queer cinema

3.1: the avant- garde theory film

3.2: lesbian/gay spectators and lesbian representations

Conclusion

Bibliography

References

Introduction.

Part 1

Throughout my dissertation I will be exploring the classical cinematic gaze and I will be trying to demonstrate that these theories and theorists such as Freud and Mulvey are now outdated, have no relevance and no longer relate to contemporary audiences. I will also be examining new established forms of ‘looking’ and the new theories surrounding the different forms of cinematic gaze. I will be asking many questions about how the ‘gaze’ and the theories on it have evolved,
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