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...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Fassbinder and Lacan: A Reconsideration of Gaze, Look and Image Kaja Silverman Although the descriptive phrase “aesthetics of pessimism” derives from Fassbinder himself,l it might well have been...

... , and English Studies in Canada . Currently she is working on a book on violence in film and stage versions of Shakespeare's plays. Catherine (Jennifer Lopez) as subjected beauty: the viewer’s “full prize,” in The Cell (dir. Tarsem Singh, US/Germany, 2000) Hook and Eye: Violence and the Captive Gaze...

... & Event . From Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, US, 1982) Affects of the Gaze: Post-Oedipal Desire and the Traversal of Fantasy in Blade Runner Richard Pope Despite the vagaries of the film and its reception, within the uni- versity a consensus interpretation of Blade Runner (dir...

...) holding her own against the hardened miners. Rags (US 1915), directed by James Kirwood. Photos throughout courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oh, “Doll Divine”: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze Gaylyn Studlar Mary Pickford, doll divine, Year by year...

... surrounding these films rather than on their structure and the radical politics of the gaze they enact. Fat Girl depicts shocking and violent material as a means of critiquing the underlying structural violence that the director believes determines gendered power relations. Breillat's films have been...

... the Gaze: Visual Fascination and the Feminine Image in Silent Hitchcock Jessica Brent Are not the traits which I indicated (the make-up, the whiteness, the wig, etc.) just like the blunting of a meaning too clear, too violent? Do they not give the obvious signified a kind of difficultly...

...Diane Waldman; Janet Walker Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Book Reviews Is the Gaze Maternal?: E. Ann Kaplan’s Women and FiZm: Both Sides of the Camera Dime WaZdman andJanet WaZher It has been over two years since the publication of E. Ann Kaplan’s...

..., constantly relegated to the film's background both literally and metaphorically, are never handled with enough sophistication in the film, forcing the viewer into the disturbing position of reproducing the conspiracy theorist's gaze. The article thus critiques the film's failure to adequately move beyond...

...Figure 1. The transgender gaze of Marina (Daniela Vega) takes hold, the mirror acting as a shield against cisgender scrutiny. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017) ...

... and the multiplicity of gazes at play in the making of this authenticity. Specifically, the tape illuminates the reflexive constitution of an authentic black masculinity via the white female gaze while further revealing pornography's investment in the imaging and imagining of a genuine black masculinity as being still...

... of opacity shifts discussions of seeing and knowing toward situatedness, partiality, and the limits of the Western gaze; this section draws on Donna Haraway's interventions into debates about objectivity and Chandra Talpade Mohanty's critique of the colonial gaze in some Western feminist scholarship...

... and alternating between documentary-like scenarios and quiet, evocative cinematic pauses on the natural world, After Life contrasts a bucolic landscape with the spectacle of film production. Moreover, After Life privileges the transformative potential of a benevolent gaze (subjectively held by its female...

...Cara Dickason Abstract This article analyzes episodes of early science fiction anthology series to examine how fears of television's ability to turn its gaze on the home circulated around women, both as objects of surveillance and as television spectators, in the 1950s and 1960s. Media historians...

... a slideshow of Vietnamese press photographs featuring anonymous witnesses pointing to undescribed, unknown events in varied Southeast Asian landscapes, Nguyễn's five‐minute film renders the gaze a visible and felt presence through her staging of iterative and intensifying acts of witnessing against a quiet...

... of gender in the psychological constitution of the subject. As a further extension into the cinematic representation of women, the female usurpation of the gaze will also be dissected in terms of its adverse consequences in these films. The essay therefore argues that the current Asian horror film...

... argue that Or, My Treasure is a critical Mizrahi feminist film that exposes the hegemonic social gaze as a political mechanism of power and violence that terrorizes the Mizrahi female body. The ethnic, class, and gender oppression of the Mizrahi female subject creates a traumatic experience...

... the rigidity of physical space and the ephemerality of real-time information processing. The contested boundary between public and private is necessarily reconfigured along with the mediated gaze relation, its articulation with language and textuality, and its possibilities for communication and horizontal...

... impossible to read it without referencing the cinematic lexicon of scopophilia, fetishism, voyeurism, the sadistic male gaze, objectification of the female body, mental images, relational images, thought cinema, the imaginary Real, the symbolic Real, and the “Real Real.” This essay traces how critical...