>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA Laura Mulvey Screen Autumn 1975 Intention: Analyze-Destroy.

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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA Laura Mulvey Screen Autumn 1975 Intention: Analyze-Destroy

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> three looks associated with cinema: the camera as it records the pro-filmic event the audience as it watches the final product the characters at each other within the screen illusion The conventions of narrative film deny the first two and subordinate them to the third, the conscious aim being always to eliminate intrusive camera presence and prevent a distancing awareness in the audience. Without these two absences (the material existence of the recording process, the critical reading of the spectator), fictional drama cannot achieve reality, obviousness and truth.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The Quote of Psychoanalysis: Freud & J. Lacan Freud: ① the anxiety of castration ② Oedipus complex ③ Psychological complement J. Lacan: Mirror Stage The order of { the Imaginary, the Symbolic, the Real }

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Cases Analysis: Sternberg & Hitchcock Sternberg: 许多有关纯粹的恋物窥视癖的例证 pure examples of fetishistic [ 'fi:ti ʃ istik ] Scopophilia [,skəupə'filiə ] Hitchcock: 同时用两种机制,窥淫癖 / 恋物窥视癖 both mechanisms of voyeurism[ vw ɑ :'jə:rizəm ] and fetishistic scopophilia

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Goal It is said that analysing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the intention of this article. To break down-- the relationship between the Cinematic codes and the formative external structures To challenged— The pleasure provided by the mainstream film.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Psychoanalysis is not the only but an important tool, by examining patriarchy [ ‘peitri ɑ :ki ] (男权 / 父权). with the tools it provides.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> A. A Political Use of Psychoanalysis fascination of film/ pre-existing patterns of fascination starting point the way film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially established interpretation of sexual difference which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> a political weapon Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic theory is thus appropriated here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> phallocentrism it depends on the image of the castrated woman to give order and meaning to its world. it is her lack that produces the phallus as a symbolic presence, it is her desire to make good the lack that the phallus signifies.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> summaries briefly the function of woman in forming the patriarchal unconscious is two-fold ① real absence of a penis ② raises her child into the symbolic (Real order, Symbolic order, Imaginary order) Freud's famous phrase the frustration experienced under the phallocentric order ultimate challenge: how to fight the unconscious structured like a language

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> B. Destruction of Pleasure as a Radical Weapon the cinema the unconscious structures ways of seeing and pleasure in looking. Hollywood reflecting the dominant ideological concept of the cinema not to reject the mainstream film moralistically ① but to highlight the ways in which its formal preoccupations reflect the psychical obsessions of the society which produced it ② to stress that the alternative cinema must start specifically by reacting against these obsessions and assumptions

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> A politically and aesthetically avant-garde cinema is now possible, but it can still only exist as a counterpoint. The magic of the Hollywood style Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> This article will discuss the interweaving of that erotic pleasure in film its meaning in particular the central place of the image of woman the intention of this article analysing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it the high point of film history hitherto must be attacked

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Not a reconstructed new pleasure nor intellectualised unpleasure but to make way for a total negation of the ease and plenitude of the narrative fiction film

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> It is the place of the look that defines cinema, the possibility of varying it and exposing it. cinematic codes create a gaze, a world, and an object

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> the voyeuristic-scopophilic look that is a crucial part of traditional filmic pleasure can itself be broken down three looks associated with cinema: the camera as it records the pro-filmic event the audience as it watches the final product the characters at each other within the screen illusion free the look of the camera into its materiality in time and space free the look of the audience into dialectics, passionate detachment

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Further Reading Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (London: Hogarth, 1929 ) Helene Cixous, Keith Cohen, Paula Cohen, The Laugh of the Medusa (Chicago Journals, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer, 1976), pp Published by: The University of Chicago Press Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press,1979)