Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Laura Mulveys Male Gaze theory- Task 5. casey rayner

One big sector of Laura Mulveys Male gaze theory is the virginal/whore dichotomy. In other words this is the media representing women as either being a sexy whore who licks lollypops in music videos half naked etc. Whereas the innocent virgin would be running through fields or child-like places, clothed and looking innocent.

A practical exercise for this would be that all males and females in the class will split into two groups, and the girls must represent both the virginal women, and the sexy slutty woman. Then it is all the males job in the class to sculpture each women/girl to move in certain ways, take off clothing etc to capture the right effect whether its the innocent virgin or the whore.

To make things fun as well males will also have to try and adapt themselves to acting in a virgin-like way, and in a whore like way. Then at the end of the class, without being sexist; the class will have to take a vote by raising your hands and deciding whether the males or females were better at either the whore or the innocent virgin. Once the winning gender is declared, that gender will have to have a 'BATTLE OFF', and it will have to be sexier and raunchier then ever, and the innocence more innocent then a new born baby!

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Another factor of her theory is that the camera always represents a males point of view, but would this be accepted in real life? is this brainwashing men to be sex crazy? do men always look at womens boobs?

This task is more of a survey, your group should split into three more groups, so there's three different jobs being executed within a group. One group will walk around as if they are the camera and seeing the reactions from the public, whereas another group will be taking a survey from teachers about their favorite genres of film, and then asking whether they'd be comfortable if they knew men were always like the camera. Lastly a survey will be carried out to males in the class asking whether they'd prefer life to be more like an American Pie film with no worries, sex and parties every day?

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