Hope you’re all staying healthy while trying to make the best of the situation that we’re in.
We know this transition is difficult, so our prompt will give you a chance to sit back and
watch some movie clips and apply them to this week’s reading.
Mulvey's "Viewing Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and The Practices of Looking (pp.
120-129) focus on the male gaze present in visual representations of women, specifically in film.
According to Mulvey, there has been "a split between active/male and passive/female...In their
traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their
appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to be
looked-at-ness" (837). Mulvey emphasizes that women do not move the plot forward in narrative
films, but they are simply there to be viewed by the male characters and audience members.
Although Mulvey was writing in the 1970s, these ideas still hold true today in modern films.
This week, we are asking you to complete the following prompt.
1. Watch these 4 movie clips:
Dirty Dancing:
Miss Congeniality:
Wolf of Wall Street:
Wonder Woman:
https://youtu.be/pJCgeOAKXyg
2. Choose one to write about. If several other students have chosen the same clip, please
consider responding to their post with your own ideas that add to the larger conversation.
3. Argue whether or not this clip demonstrates the male gaze as outlined in Mulvey’s essay.
How do you think Mulvey may respond to this clip?
To help you with your post, here are some of the key vocabulary words from the readings.
It is not necessary to use these in your post, but just keep them in mind when thinking and writing
about the male gaze.
2. Choose one to write about. If several other students have chosen the same clip, please
consider responding to their post with your own ideas that add to the larger conversation.
3. Argue whether or not this clip demonstrates the male gaze as outlined in Mulvey’s essay.
How do you think Mulvey may respond to this clip?
To help you with your post, here are some of the key vocabulary words from the readings.
It is not necessary to use these in your post, but just keep them in mind when thinking and writing
about the male gaze.
Voyeurism - Pleasure is derived from looking without being seen.
Phallocentrism - The phallus, a symbol of men’s power, is the main element in the organization
of the world.
of the world.
Scopophilia - The sexual pleasure that a person derives from looking at prurient objects of eroticism,
such as pornography, the nude body, and fetishes, etc., as a substitute for actual participation in a
sexual relationship.
such as pornography, the nude body, and fetishes, etc., as a substitute for actual participation in a
sexual relationship.
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