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... When viewing this film there is also another undeniable fact that point of view that the camera holds is essentially male and because of this there is pleasure and anxiety when viewing this film through a male gaze, but according to Mulvey there are two solutions to this problem; the first being voyeurism and the second being fetishistic scopaphilia. Voyeuristic looking involves a controlling gaze and Mulvey argues that this has associations with sadism: ‘pleasure lies in ascertaining guilt - asserting control and subjecting the guilty person through punishment or forgiveness’ (Mulvey, 39). ...
These strategies that film makers use imply that the anxiety of the woman is the fact that she is castrated and that the male himself could also be. ... The psychoanalytical fetish and voyeurism tends to keeps the women in line in the male gaze, which is not always controllable in real society.
Approximate Word count = 1188
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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