Contextual Facts on Laura Mulvey:- Professor of film
- Feminist Activist
- Born in the 1950s
- Published essay in 1975
- Avant-garde filmmaker
Key Points:
- In cinema there is a difference between the roles of men and women
- Men project themselves onto characters
- The Male Gaze
- 'To-be-looked-at-ness'
- Active (male) / Passive (female)
- Patriarchy and its effect on culture
Important Quotes:
- 'Traditionally, the woman displayed has functioned on two levels: as erotic object for the characters within the screen story and as erotic object for the spectator within the auditorium.'
- 'The male protagonist is free to command the stage, a stage of spatial illusion in which he articulates the look and creates the action.'
- 'the woman has not the slightest importance'
- 'woman displayed as sexual object is the leitmotif of erotic spectacle'
- '... as the bearer of the look of the spectator'
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