Can there be a Female Gaze?

1. Can there be a Female Gaze?

2. The gaze in Hollywood cinema can only be male. Aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of a female gaze. “Visual Pleasure and NarrativeCinema” by Laura Mulvey

3. Laura Mulvey

4. The Piano – Jane Campion

7. Anorexia

8. Painful and harmful shoes

9. Body Piercing

14. Voyeurism Voyeuristic visual pleasure is obtained through objectification of the female image..

15. Woman as Bearer of the Bleeding Wound • She only exists in relation to castration • Woman stands as signifier for the male other

17. Scopophilia • One of the pleasures that Mulvey describes, which takes women as objects and controls them with the ‘gaze.’ This creates pleasure for the male spectator, and for the woman spectator as well as she internalizes the message of being-looked-at-ness.

19. Fetishism • “builds up the physical beauty of the object, transforming it into something satisfying in itself” The woman becomes an icon

21. Patricia Mellencamp

22. ROMANCE OF FAIRY TALES

25. Dr. E. Ann Kaplan, Professor at Stony Brook

28. Sigmund Freud

29. Nancy Chodorow, Professor of Sociology at Berkeley

30. Mothers and Daughters

32. FATHERS

33. Oedipus Complex

34. Jessica Benjamin, Psychologist

36. Jessica Tandy

38. The Color Purple

39. Thelma and Louise

41. FULL MONTY

42. American Gigolo

45. Blue Steel