Task 11

Laura Mulvey - visual pleasures and narrative cinema summary

This theory can relate to This Bollwood film Page 3 as it encourages the idea of 'Male Gaze' there are many attractive young girls who try and make it big in Bollywood, and are prepared to anything to get fame. one if the girls who plays a side role is trying to become a actress in a male dominated society. She reinforces the stereotypes of women, someone who is weak and in constant need of help (by the men) she therefore an icon and fulfils the purpose of being looked at In most scenes she is under dressed which help fetishize her feminine figure, that the audience who are presumably male are watching her voyeuristic pleasures. Therefore she is an object of the male pleasure.The main character is not passive like other women in the film, infact she questions authorit. She is portrayed to be not attractive. Therefore not posses the quality of to-be-looked-at-ness.

The phallic object in page three is a camera. As this whole film is based around celebrities and how truthful is the news in the magazine. This idea of a camera connotes this idea of male gaze,voyueristism and fetishism which is continvious throught the fim.

Sigmund Freud - Laura Mulvey adapted from the work of him. His theory was that there was a fear inserted in boys, when lokoing at girls they think that she has had her penis removed. therefore the boy becomes filled with anxiety as he believes this may possible happen to him.this is also known as castration anxiety