I'm quite familiar with the Laura Mulvey essay we talked about in class (we spent an entire unit on it in another class last semester). It's all about the male gaze and cinema taking on aspects of the Oedipus complex etc etc in its most simplified version. In response to this article, we watched Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (which is AMAZING if any of you haven't seen it). There are so many films and TV shows that objectify women through image, so why Rear Window? Because RW STARTS to flip Mulvey's norms on its head.
GO WATCH THIS NOW
About a minute in, the camera pans down the length of Jimmy Stewart's body. HALLELUJAH IT'S A MIRACLE!!!! We are seeing a male body being objectified (sorta) just like a woman's would usually be! Oh wait...as soon as we finish panning over Stewart, we pan up from Grace Kelly's feet. Like usual. SO CLOSE.
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