Book chapter
The Rise of Narrative Film
Alfred Hitchcock
The University Press of Kentucky
05 Feb 2015
Abstract
In 1975 Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” helped launch a new direction for film studies.¹ Mulvey argued that all classical narrative films (generally speaking, feature films of the Hollywood era) are tailored to the male point of view (in cinematic terms, the male “gaze”). Women, she maintained, are represented in these films either as passive appendages of men or as ideally desirable bodies (larger-than-life cultural icons, i.e., “stars”). In this dual function, they serve both as an image of the castration which the male viewer fears for himself and as a fetish to allay this same castration anxiety.
Metrics
1 Record Views
Details
- Title
- The Rise of Narrative Film
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836453404721