Identity and Relationship Flashcards
According to Laura Mulvey, the feminist perspective of the “male gaze” invites the camera/viewer to view women in these terms. (short answer)
The feminist perspective of the “male gaze” invites the camera/viewer to view women in a voyeuristic and objectifying way.
Suturing inserts/articulates/interpolates the viewer into the subject position of the film image. Give an example of a camera/editing technique that allows this to happen and how it works. (multiple sentence answer)
In Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”, suturing is used in the notorious shower seen where the antagonist makes his first on-screen kill. The extreme tension in the film is elongated by Hitchcock’s decision to delay and stretch out the suturing—giving the illusion that there is no escape because nowhere is safe and the killer cannot yet be seen. Finally when the suturing occurs, shots from strange different angles “break up the sense of wholeness” in the scene, and combined with several close-ups, the viewer is interpolated directly into the action.
Briefly define scopophilia, a.k.a. scoptophilia. (short answer)
Scopophilia or scoptophilia, comes from Latin and means the “love of looking”—pleasure from seeing.
Explain how watching cinema integrates both voyeurism and narcissism. (multiple answer)
Film appeals to scopophilia, “the desire to see and objectify”, and this scopophilia is stimulated by film due to the fact that film contains structures of voyeurism and narcissism—both intrinsic to scopophilia.
Name one of the video format’s unique strengths as an art form (short answer).
The video format’s unique strength as an art form is its ability to seemingly eliminate the gap between art and real life.
Video as an art form emerged in the mid-1960’s when the video Porta-pak became available to the consumer. Name one quality of this equipment that made it so revolutionary and appealing to artists.
Even though the Porta-pak wasn’t light, it was revolutionary in its ability to be so portable and transportable in a way that no other video equipment had ever been before.
In Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, what has the character Elisabeth decided to do that incites the story? (short answer)
In the middle of her performance of Elektra, Elisabeth ceases to speak.
Define the title Persona as it’s use applies to the film. (short answer)
Persona ends up not being about whom the person actually is (as the name might suggest) but the different identities of the person.
List the qualities of Woody Allen’s movie persona that he has cultivated in his movies and other mediums. (list)
Woody Allen’s movie persona has the qualities of being an “overanxious, underachieving intellectual with the inept social life”, who is overly predictable, and always laughs before the punch lines.
In addition to poking fun at himself, Annie Hall also provides scathing commentary on… what? (short answer)
) Annie Hall is also a scathing commentary on Hollywood itself.
