Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions.
Read the following excerpt, paraphrase it, and list the examples of works we've studied or images from popular culture that support ideas expressed within the excerpt.
"In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy on to the female form, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness. Woman displayed as sexual object is the leit-motif of erotic spectacle...she holds the look, plays to and signifies male desire." - Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
Read the following excerpt, paraphrase it, and list the examples of works we've studied or images from popular culture that support ideas expressed within the excerpt.
"In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy on to the female form, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness. Woman displayed as sexual object is the leit-motif of erotic spectacle...she holds the look, plays to and signifies male desire." - Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
