Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and Psychoanalytic Theory
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- This video provides a closer look at the psychoanalytic underpinning's of Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," a major work in film studies best known for the concept of the "male gaze." The video looks closely at the second paragraph of the essay, which summarizes a number of major principles from the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. In particular, the video examines how Lacan specifically informs Mulvey's arguments.
Topics discussed include castration anxiety; the phallus (especially the distinction between Freud's definition and Lacan's definition); the imaginary, symbolic, and real (Lacan); and the function of the term "signifier" in Mulvey and Lacan.
For the full series on Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and the male gaze, see below:
Part 1: • Introduction to Laura ...
Part 2: • Mulvey's "Visual Pleas...
Part 3: • Laura Mulvey's "Visual...
Part 4: • Laura Mulvey and the F...
Part 5: • Mulvey's "Visual Pleas...
This was so good. Thanks for your videos.
Please keep up the amazing job you are doing with yours videos 💪. No much of comparable content on UA-cam for film and culture theory ! :)
thanks, Franek!
Great work thank you. You deserve a large audience.
Thank you for this. For the past year, I've been out of college, yet degreeless because I didn't have enough money to afford my last remaining classes. I've honestly missed the learning enviornment. I'm hopefully going to be graduating next spring with a degree in English Lit. I enjoy essays and lectures about the multidimensional and multicultural idiosyncrasies of film and literature analysis as well as the exploration of themes and how our own bias' as creators and directors can influence the scope of fiction and storytelling around us. Laura's works are so fascinating, and they've really helped me articulate the feelings frustration that I encounter when consuming media, especially when a woman's titular and important character is only used to help the man's. A lot of the great "classics," are involved within that scope of the "male gaze," and it can be overwhelming as a young woman to have to recognize the era of a different time, while still finding similarities of decipted feminine energies within media of today, despite the many conversations and movements in the film world. It makes me want to continue my dream of writing, to include characters of all genders to be complex, exciting, and multidimensional within their human condition. To make something Laura would approve of. Great video!
Thanks for sharing your story and your perspective, Rachel! I love to see that folks are still passionate about Mulvey's ideas.
I really love your discussion! I'm currently working on my paper and you helped me a lot with this video. Thank you!
I really feel lost at trying to understand why you hope to give a kind of soapbox to pseudofeminist male-hate-narrative. And I quote, at 1:41 of this vid: ua-cam.com/video/dL3Hrwg3A3w/v-deo.html
Seems to me that this is the work and existence of many trans and non-binary people who have no choice but to be the sane people who make time to call out the not so sane - kind of ironic that Peterson (or at least his fans) have issues with trans existence if this is a stated goal.
Also, I don’t see the male-hate narrative here at all; quite the opposite.
What was anti-man? Because he was explaining what is said when someone points of the significance of feminine oppression in the scope of a patriarchal world? Is that really so hard to understand? The realm of film making, especially, is very patriarchal. Very male dominated. That is not to say that men are bad, and if you confuse a statement with your own sentiment, there's a larger issue to be had with your own relationship with the patriarchal world that resides within yourself, otherwise known as insecurity.