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Virginia Woolf's metaphor of woman as the looking-glass held up to man ("Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice his natural size") is recast in Laura Mulvey's film-theoretical metaphor of woman as im age and bearer of the look, and followed through in its implications for female spectators.
— Oct 31, 2025 05:25PM
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It has often been objected that "feminizing" the male body does not alter the polarity by which the body is desired, can be seen, only as female. The objection comes from the terms in which phallic desire is constructed, its requirements of disavowal, hence, for cinema, voyeurism and fetishism.
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In what is now considered one of the most important texts of feminist film criticism, Laura Mulvey stated that an alternative, politically and aesthetically avant-garde cinema could only exist in counterpoint to mainstream film as analysis, subversion, and total negation of Hollywood's pleasurable obsessions and its ideological manipulation of visual pleasure.
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