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Q2 With detailed reference to your specific area of study, analyse and discuss the relationship between women and film. Gilligan (2003) explains that 1970s feminist film theory described "woman" in three forms: * The constructed image or cinematic representation of woman on the screen * Real life women who watch films * The feminist film theorist who speaks "as a woman" In 1975 Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist, wrote an article for Screen magazine called "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Laura Mulvey did not carry out any studies on actual filmgoers, but instead used psychoanalytical theory in a study of cinema spectatorship. She suggested that cinema is filmed from a "male camera" position. She suggests that film is a voyeuristic experience (the spectator acts like a peeping Tom) and that females are portrayed as sex objects in close up in popular films of the time. Women in films at the time were there...

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