Lecture 4 the Gaze and the Media
‘according
to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no
means been overcome - men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch
themselves being looked at’ - (Berger 1972)
-Coward, R. (1984)- The profusion of images which characterises
contemporary society could be seen as an obsessive distancing of women… a form
of voyeurism
-Peeping Tom, 1960
-Peeping Tom, 1960
Pollock, G
(1981)
-Women ‘marginalised within the masculine
discourses of art history’
-This marginalisation supports the ‘hegemony of men in cultural practice, in art’
-Women not only marginalised but supposed to be marginalised
-This marginalisation supports the ‘hegemony of men in cultural practice, in art’
-Women not only marginalised but supposed to be marginalised
Social
Networking is used to perpetuate the male gaze/ the gaze of the media
-The body
is broken into fragments-could be any female
-Plays on teenagers body consciousness, potentially carrying those perceptions into adult life
-Plays on teenagers body consciousness, potentially carrying those perceptions into adult life
FB
normalises voyeurism
Male or female posting doesn’t matter.One
hundred and 93 thousand young people ‘like’ or relate to this imageMedia and
male gaze are one , as Rosalind Coward says in ‘The Look’
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