Spectatorship: The Power of Looking onThis book cuts a lucid path through the debate on spectatorship. It revisits the classics of Hollywood; explores films beyond the mainstream, such as Dogme 95; and shows how cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday while turning the spectacular into something commonplace. It also muses on the consequences of our sharing in or witnessing the private or intimate acts of others and our enjoyment of events that often represent a gross break with legal and social mores. |
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activity agency apparatus theory argue audience Basic Instinct Body of Evidence camera chapter characterised characters classical contemporary context critical crucial death desire disavowal discussion distance Doane Dogme 95 Double Indemnity emphasis erotic thriller ethics of spectatorship example Eyes of Laura fantasy female spectator female spectator's femininity feminist film theory femme fatale fetishism fetishistic film noir film text film theory film's filmmaking Freud gaze gender genre heroine Hollywood identification ideology illusion implication indulgence Kiss Before Dying Laura Mars Lisa looking masochism masochistic masochistic economy masochistic pleasure Metz mirror stage moral Mulvey Mulvey's murder narrative cinema noir on-screen over-identification pain patriarchal Peeping Peeping Tom perverse Phyllis position psychic psychoanalytic reading Rebecca relationship represents responsibility sadistic sadomasochism scene screen self-reflexivity sexual social spassing spec spectacle spectator's experience spectatorship stage Strange Days Structuralism Studlar submission suffering suture textual theorists tion truth unpleasure viewer visual pleasure Walter watching woman women