Sexual Difference in Cinema — Issues of Fantasy, Narrative and the Look
1986; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3366/olr.1986.015
ISSN1757-1634
Autores Tópico(s)Digital Games and Media
ResumoI want in this talk briefly to address two sets of issues around sexual difference and cinema — the first around recent work on fantasy and narrative, and the second questions arising from Laura Mulvey's article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. Much of the most important recent work on the issue of cinema and sexual difference has addressed that issue through a consideration of fantasy. I'm thinking here in particular of two articles published in m/f, 'Feminism, Film Theory and the Bachelor Machines' by Constance Penley and 'Fantasia' by Elizabeth Cowie. Both these articles use a description and definition of fantasy as the setting and articulation of desire, as a scenario in which the subject's desire is staged, imaged and narrated. Constance Penley argues the advantages of work on cinema and sexual difference from this perspective as follows:
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