passive‚ sexual objects in film‚ which revolves around the male gaze‚ meaning it is portrayed through the eyes of men and their desires. (Haslam 187-190) “Babylon” the sixth episode of Mad Men reinforces this focus on women through the ‘male gaze’ as argued by Laura Mulvey and ‘hyper-sexualization’ argued by Phillips & Strobol. There are two examples in “Babylon” that I am going to discuss that both support Mulvey’s concept of the male gaze and Phillips & Strobol’s concept of hyper-sexualization and
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The focal question of this essay can be stated as follows ; what are the implications of the gender performances behaved by the characters? And to what extent can these performances help in their efforts to construct their own identities? Crushproof (1998) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005) offer us opposing representations of characters who both strive to overcome the efforts by patriarchal society to impede them‚ they do so by means of; hypermasculinity‚ and hyperfeminity through drag. The psychological
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1955 marked the year in which Nicholas Ray’s film Rebel Without a Cause was released as the latest Hollywood success. With its revolutionary acting and modern style‚ Rebel Without a Cause proved to be an ideal example of progressive‚ contemporary cinema. Amidst these factors is the intricate screenplay regarding a rebellious adolescent and his troubled relationships with his family and new found friends. Unfortunately‚ this was a film that was produced in the mid-1950s‚ a time when the self-censorship
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The parallelism of Vera to the figure of the reclining nude as the object of the male gaze is constructed only to be threatened by Vera’s returning of the gaze. Almodóvar implicates the viewer into the narrative as 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
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The Gaze (John urry) - is an understanding how the tourist behaves by the regulation of the culture. Thus‚ rather than being ’out of place’ a person may be regulated by the gaze of others so they may embody the culture of difference. However‚ this does not always apply. A tour group of the same culture may find more comfort in the ’sameness’ of their fellow travellers. False Front (Boorstin) - Objective authenticity of toured objects treat authenticity as a property inhering in toured objects one
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on women‚ the male characters still play a very important role. The women in the film‚ geishas‚ are subjected to The Male Gaze. Male characters in the film are the ones who have the power of looking at women. The dancing scenes in the tea houses and in the theater‚ the parties with the Americans and etc. are clear examples of how men look at women and they confirm the male gaze theory. Due to all these reasons and different subject examinations in the movie‚ I believe Memoirs of a Geisha is a very
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First film theorist Laura Mulvey she wrote Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in 1975. She came up with the idea of the Male Gaze. The idea that the woman is passive and the male is active. So the woman is the image and the man is the bare of the look which very much indicates the man has the power of the woman. In vertigo this is evident within the first scene the Ernie’s Restaurant when Scottie goes to meet Madeline for the first time. Where they don’t actually meet‚ they don’t even make eye
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Using my own detailed examples explain how gender is represented today Gender is represented in the media constantly by using stereotypes and conforming to hegemonic states. Representation is the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way. Women are commonly displayed as being stay at home mums who depend on their husbands. Within the Katy Perry dark horse music video‚ women are portrayed as being strong and independent. The low camera angles support this as the audience
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male characters‚ Women in cinema‚ even in action roles‚ are portrayed in a way that objectifies them‚ even if that is not the end goal of their role. This repetition of the stereotypical gender roles correlates with Laura Mulvey’s theory of the "Male Gaze.” Mulvey innovated the idea that active and passive aspects of scopophilia (the urge to look) are shared among the sexes. Relatedly‚ in his article Ways of Seeing‚ John Berger had already proposed that in Western culture‚ from painting to advertising
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AS Sociology Revision Mapping Mass Media “The role of the mass media in representations of age‚ social class‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexuality and disability”. © Chris. Livesey 2007: www.sociology.org.uk AS Sociology For AQA Mass Media Portrayals Representations Interpretations Chandler (2001): Representation refers to how the media constructs realities in terms of certain key markers of identity. Identities Connor (2001): “…representation is not just about the way
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