Mimi Hanson has a super article about the gaze in Rudolph Valentino's movies: if he looks first at the woman, then it's true love; if the woman looks at him first (in just the objectifying way described here by Mike), then she's doomed. Anyway, the point I wanted to make was that it isn't only the act of looking but how the narrative codes that act. Since I don't know SARATOGA TRUNK, I don't know if Bergman's gaze is ratified or punished by the narrative as a whole. Sandy Camargo Department of English University of Missouri >My favourite antidote to Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema is to show a >clip from Saratoga Trunk. It was made in 1944 and was one of the biggest >box office films of 1946, when it was released. It is therefore >unquestionably a product of the classical Hollywood studio period which >seems to be the main concern of Mulvey's essay. However, the first >encounter between Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper has Bergman catching sight >of Cooper leaning against a bar, fixing him with her gaze and looking him up >and down in a highly objectifying fashion. As she does so the camera gives >her POV so the audience gets to objectify him too, so calling into question >the validity of Mulvey's argument about the existence of an exclusively male >gaze. This gesture is repeated later in the film. To illustrate the other >side of the argument I use a clip from GI Jane (a non-classical period film) >in which Jane is held in an sexually objectifying gaze while she works out. > >Two essays you may find useful are Sabrina Barton's *Your Self Storage: >Female Investigation and Male Performativity in teh Woman's Psychothriller* >in *The New American Cinema* edited by Jon Lewis, and Steven Cohan's essay >on Fred Astaire in *Screening The Male* edited by Cohan and Hark. Cohan's >*MAsked Men* may also be helpful. > >Mike Chopra-Gant >Goldsmiths College >UNiversity of London > >[log in to unmask] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Stephen Tropiano <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 5:59 PM >Subject: VOYeuRISM Assistance > > >> >> I am teaching a course on Images of Men and Women in the Media. >> In the past I have started with the star system and Marilyn Monroe and >> then had students read Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative >> Cinema" and watch "Peeping Tom," which all the students seem to have seen. >> >> I was curious if anyone has suggestions for an alternative film. >> More importantly, I am considering tying in something about the new >> voyeurism in our culture (i.e. reality shows, "The Real World," >> and webcams/internet). >> >> can anyone point me towards any articles or screening suggestions. >> Thank you. >> >> Stephen Tropiano >> Ithaca College LA Program >> >> "What is essential is invisible to the eye." >> -THE LITTLE PRINCE >> >> ---- >> Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite >> http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite