Showing posts with label The Male Glaze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Male Glaze. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

The 39 steps

Male... John Hannay- Rupert Penry-Jones
Female...Victoria Sincleir- Lydia Lenard


John:
well dressed
well spoken
alpha male
not sterotypical male figure
unfazed by being shot
genre- action
setting... hilly, midle of knowhere
looks out of place
victimised? vunerable, police men with guns dogs ect.
imposter? great danger
underminds victoria
flirtatious
Gentalman/ shes a lady
sexist/supiorior

Victoria:
one of a few women in the room
suffragette- women
looks the part- wearing peticoates
believes in womens rights
sexist/strongminded/stubborn
uses violence and femaninity and masculain
male glaze- camera looking and legs and waist
music creats suspence... non diegetic-fits
address him as equal

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

The Male Glaze

The concept of the male glaze, this is the concept of dealing with how the audience veiws the people presented.
For feminists it can be thaught of in 3 ways:
How men look at women.
How women look at themselves.
How women look at other women.

Laura Mulvey coined the term 'the male glaze' in 1975. she believes that film audiences have to veiw characters from the perspective of a hetrosexual male.

The camera lingers on the curves of a female body, and events which occur to women are presented largley in the context of a man's reaction to these events. Relegates women to the status of objects. The female veiwer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identification with the male.

The are some critisms to the Mulvey 'Glaze theory'