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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Male Gaze"”.
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Are We Killing the Boys Harshly? The Consumption of the Male Gaze in Queer Pages
… new millennium up until 2008 in order to explore gaze theory in a queer context by answering the research question, “How have queer men represented themselves to themselves in the new millennium through the queer male gaze?” Inspired by Jean Kilbourne’s study of the image of women in advertising, …
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The Real and the Digital: Female Agency and Resisting the Male Gaze in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Works
… grapple with the construction and potential of female identity. Considering the works within the context of Laura Mulvey’s seminal text “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” this paper will attempt to elucidate how Hershman Leeson’s works have engaged with the male gaze and its social and …
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In her Prime or Past it?: Reconsidering the Male Gaze and Exploring Feminine Monstrosity and Excess in Feminist Performance Art and Film
… to re-envisage Laura Mulvey’s 1975 theory of the male gaze, to uncover the subversive potential of that re-envisaging process when explored and questioned through feminist performance art. This is a practice-based PhD that uses interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the agentive potential of …
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
… to a literary tradition of damsel-in-distress female characters, Astrid Lindgren’s <em>Pippi Longstocking</em>, Louise Fitzhugh’s <em>Harriet the Spy</em>, and Alan Bradley’s <em>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</em> provide examples of empowered, intelligent, and capable young girls living …
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“Ek sal jou heeltyd dophou.” (I'll be watching you the whole time) Surveillance and the Male Gaze in Films by Black South African Women
… ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' on the male gaze in Classical Hollywood cinema serves as the springboard for a close textual analysis of Jyoti Mistry's Impunity (2015) and Nosipho Dumisa's Nommer 37 (Number 37) (2018). I set out to determine how Mistry and Dumisa use the camera to …
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Identity, Desire and Spectatorship: An Examination of Germaine Dulac’s <em>La Coquille et le Clergyman</em>
… woman as an object of desire, subjected to the male gaze through the cinematic process. Not only is the lone female character the object of desire of her two male suitors on screen, but she also becomes the object of desire for the presumably male viewer of the film, who has become a silent …
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… women’s bodies in ways that appeal to the “male gaze.” These portrayals include using stereotypical images and representations, including observable “gazing” and objectification of female bodies, utilizing visually consistent and unattainable images of female beauty, and ignoring or …
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Temporality, Spatiality and Looking in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
… alternative viewing experience, eliminating the 'male gaze' that dominates Classical Hollywood Cinema in order to create a female oriented look. Both films are able to create Deleuzian time-images: images that are not related to or induced by action, and which subsequently present a pure and …
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Beyond the Mirror: Towards a feminised (cartographic) process of spatiality in moving-image & installation based art
… hom(m)o-sexual paradigm and structuration of the male gaze and moving towards a gyneacentric perspective, the thesis explores how a feminised process of reception and interaction with artworks might arise. My installation and moving-image practice-led research is driven by a central question: How …
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Activistas: Central American Women’s Representation, Writing, and Cultural Production in the United States
… role of Central American women written from the male gaze through an intersectional feminist lens. The latter half of this study focuses on US Central American women’s work in deconstructing patriarchal systems and the innovative ways they create spaces for this work to be done. In summary, I …
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Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus : private space, public performance and torture
… Diana/Actaeon myth, the reconstitution of the male gaze, and the elimination of the blazon. As well, the thesis examines how Pamphilia to Amphilanthus manifests the power of the court through the figure of torture, in spite of Wroth's attempt to create a textual space removed from courtly …
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Examining <em>Wonder Woman</em> through a Feminist Voice: How Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Adaptation Upheaved her Creation, Representation, and 80 Year Legacy
… to contribute to the scholarship on the modern female superhero by exploring Patty Jenkins’ 2017 film <em>Wonder Woman</em> and how the female super-heroine is viewed. In this study I look at Jill Lepore’s renowned novel <em>The Secret History of Wonder Woman</em>, Patty Jenkins’s 2017 film …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… identity, particularly through the lens of the female experience, employing disruptive erotics to challenge the medical and male gaze and their objectifying tendencies.</p> <p>The work presented aims to provoke thought about the mutable nature of identity in the digital age and to foster a deeper …
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… of Tradition, Dr. Miller uses his “medical gaze” to diagnose problems within the black community while also elevating himself above his community. In Faulkner’s novella “Old Man,” the Tall Convict desperately desires to return to Parchman Prison because he has absorbed the effects of …
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Creating personas, performing selves – gazing beyond the masks of drag and neo-burlesque performance
… in Cape Town. I use the concepts of the gaze and the mask in this research to unpack and understand the feminine and hyper-feminine performances by drag and neo-burlesque performers. I argue that contemporary understandings of the “male” gaze, as posited by Laura Mulvey, have become …
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Winged Women: Stewardesses, Sexism, and American Society
… what feminist theorist Laura Mulvey called “the male gaze,” in which women are viewed as objects who exist for the viewer’s pleasure, they were selected for their youth and beauty and trained to serve. Regulations about height, weight, age, and marital status, ensured that stewardesses were …
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Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series
… Avengers series centers on larger than life male figures and leaves little space for fully developed female characters, relying instead on female tropes, stereotypes, and patriarchal constructions that present uncritical and monolithic representations of women. This thesis examines female …
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Browning the archive: troubling normative formations of South African *Indian Identity
… was largely overdetermined by the colonial and male gaze. Decolonial strategies of destabilization are critical to this study to subvert the visual and discursive regimes of *Indians. This study responsively centers the position of women to decipher their sense of agency as opposed to passivity. …
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Masculinities in the plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
… specifically to aid the education of young males, the writings of politicians and arbitristas on the needs of Spanish society, journals of those involved in the administration of justice, and the conclusions of modern historians. Chapter one begins by considering the theoretical …
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Places, Please!
… performance, and Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze, I position the application of paint as a parallel to women’s altering of personal appearance and self-surveillance. I harness the beauty and tactility in both my paintings’ imagery and the medium of oil paint to direct the viewer inward, …
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