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"Camera technology (as exemplified by deep focus in particular) and camera movements (determined by the action of the protagonist), combined with invisibile editing (demanded by realism), all tend to blur the limits of screen space. The male protagonist is free to command the stage (...)"
This is single-handedly teleporting me back to my animation/critical studies years at the art academy.
— Jun 09, 2026 08:42AM
This is single-handedly teleporting me back to my animation/critical studies years at the art academy.
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"What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents. She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does. In herself the woman has not the slightest importance"
—Old text on the male gaze in cinema, yet still relevant today. Love the emphasis on women in film only being allowed to centre as a form of erotica
— Jun 09, 2026 08:33AM
—Old text on the male gaze in cinema, yet still relevant today. Love the emphasis on women in film only being allowed to centre as a form of erotica
