Between Gazes Camelia Elias

performative relations in queer films  gender to performance  performance to costume  costume to masquerade  masquerade to death  death to the gaze

tensions  the reality of what is real and the reality of what is performed  natural and performed behaviour  natural and imagined desire

opposing acts  symbolic and real  action and resignation  sacred and profane  destruction of order  restoration of order

melodrama  pathos of righteousness  pathos of victimization

signifiers of fetishization  The stage – female (set, passive, ready to be gazed upon)  The camera – male (active agent, ready to gaze upon) Discourse on knowledge:  women know their place and men know what to do