Posted: September 16th, 2017
How do films construct us as spectators, according to psychoanalytic theories
The response should
include thorough recourse to the set and recommended readings and must use the
appropriate critical terminology.
Required readings (please use those listed below as the references) :
-Barbara creed, ‘Film and Psychoanalysis’ in John Hill &
Pamela Church Gibson, ed., Film Studies: Critical Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)pg. 75- 88
-Richard Allen, "Psychoanalytic Film Theory", in Toby Miller & Robert Stam. ed., A Companion to Film Theory (Basingstoke: Blackwell, 2004), pg.124-145
-Norman Denzin, the The Cinematic Society: The Voyeur’s Gaze (London: SAGE, 1995)
-Laura Mulvey, "Visual and Other Pleasures"(Palgrave, 2009)
-Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", Screen 16:3 (Autumn 1975):6-18