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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Visual pleasure"”.
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The Real and the Digital: Female Agency and Resisting the Male Gaze in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Works
… 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 cultural implications on female identity in visual spheres. This research demonstrates how …
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Visual Splendors and Intellectual Games: Heritage as an International Film Genre
… proposes that a combination of richly detailed visuals and sound and the central narrative perspective of an intellectual outsider observer, puzzling out social relations, best characterize heritage cinema. The genre realizes an arguably feminine aesthetic sensibility, along with feminist themes …
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As cem cadeiras: comédia fílmica como fonte historiográfica
… and its pervasive circumscription of audiovisual evidence. The centrality of visual pleasure on historical film representation of the past. Allegorical and metonymical approaches of the audiovisual source. The decay of the filmmakers autority and his nationality as film exegesis parameters. …
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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)
… looks identified by Laura Mulvey in her article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. In the present work, I argue that the use of real time in the films Jeanne Dielman and Cléo from 5 to 7 allows these works to create an alternative viewing experience, eliminating the 'male gaze' that …
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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
… women onscreen. Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay, ‘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 …
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Lebanese Cinema as Resistance: Nadine Labaki’s Rejection of Orientalism and Reclamation of Female Identity
… Lebanese identities. Furthermore, Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema is examined in relation to Labaki’s films, as I argue the films resist stereotypical representations of women that objectify them, and as such, is contributing to feminist filmmakers before her, and to feminist …
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Harmonious Screen Interface Design Principles from Chinese Calligraphy
… harmonious screen interfaces, which would give visual pleasure. The first aim was to investigate and discover the quantifiable features of harmony in Chinese regular script calligraphy. Calligraphy has been associated in China with harmony and elegance for over 1500 years. There are features …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… while using them as a strategic tool within the visual work, questions the implications of skin colour in constructions of femininity within visual representations. Historically as a marker of skin colour, white women and those with a lighter skin complexion have taken the role of the feminine, …
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… and objectification of female bodies, utilizing visually consistent and unattainable images of female beauty, and ignoring or discouraging the consideration of women's sexual needs, experiences, and pleasures in filmic texts and imagery. Through a qualitative and quantitative analysis, I examine …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… early ideas on the representation of women from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" are applied to four plays from the 1980s. In concluding, I combine ideas from Chodorow and Mulvey to do a brief, illustrative analysis of My Sister In This House by Wendy Kesselman, and suggest future directions …
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The 'Uncanny' and The Android
… through an adaptation of Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema,' can be thought of as to-be-looked-at-ness machines. This enters the android into a reciprocal relationship with the camera, the looking-at-machine. It is this reciprocal machine-machine relationship which …
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How do I look? Viewing, embodiment, performance, showgirls, and art practice.
… of a revitalised language around viewing, pleasure and embodiment that can result from a consideration of the figure of the showgirl: her live performance, her representation in art, film, and images, as well as how showgirls articulate their own experiences and my own pleasures in viewing …
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Mourning, materiality and the feminine: Sarah Pucill’s films 2004-2010
… Sex Which Is not One, 1985) and Laura Mulvey (‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, 1975) are key texts that inform the writing.