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1 9745502 蘇筱雯

2 John Berger From Ways of Seeing

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4  The absence of the male figure invites the audiences to “assume the position of the authoritative viewing subject” and project their gazes “directly and exclusively on the female image (844).  Women on screen as objects Ex: Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou,1991)

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7  John Berger, “the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of woman is designed to flatter him” (64).  Laura Murvey—camera deconstructs female bodies to render male spectators visual pleasure.

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9  Women are there to be feed an appetite, not to have any of their own. (55)  Subjectivity- “refers to a subject's perspective or opinion, particularly feelings, beliefs, and desires.”  Struggle to be a subject and has her own desire. (flute, uniform)  death, madness

10 Raise the Red LanternSaving Face

11 Raise the Red LanternSaving Face

12  A lesbian’s point of view vs. males gaze  “as a feature of power asymmetry”  “In film, the male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the perspective of a heterosexual man. A scene may linger on the curves of a woman's body, for instance.”  Male gaze denies women as subjects, “relegating them to the status of objects, hence, the woman reader and the woman viewer must experience the text's narrative secondarily, by identifying with a man's perspective.”

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