Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
What does Laura Mulvey say about unchallenged main stream cinema?
Laura mulvey/visual pleasure and narrative cinema
Laura mulvey/visual pleasure and narrative cinema
From the text:
Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order. In the highly developed Hollywood cinema it was only through these codes that the alienated subject, torn in his imaginary memory by a sense of loss, by the terror of potential lack in phantasy, came near to finding a glimpse of sati.sfact~on: t~rou~h its formal beauty and its play on his own formative obsessions.
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema