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A 10 page paper which examines how different feminist approaches to film and visual theory are applied to Hitchcock’s 1954 film. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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patriarchy that still dictates the thoughts and attitudes of contemporary America. Hitchcock, perhaps better than any other filmmaker in motion picture history, understood the subtle nuances of film, and
recognized how gendered messages in particular could be symbolically represented on celluloid, and that audience would take their visual cues accordingly. In other words, a single film could be
interpreted in a variety of different ways, depending on whether or not the viewer was a male or a female. As critic Linda Williams pointed out, the experience of
watching and enjoying any film is an example of voyeurism, but that is of interest to the feminist theorists is not so much the voyeurism itself, but the way in
which perceptions of voyeurism and other such examples of "film spectatorship" are influenced by gender (706). Many feminist critics have argued that Hitchcock films are essentially ocular perversions
in which the director himself, who is relishing his role behind the camera as a "Peeping Tom," defines women in oftentimes demeaning terms that, more often than not, have sexual
connotations. They have been described by some as exhibiting a "sadistic male gaze" in which the male protagonist (as well as the director and the male filmgoer) receive a
sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of the earliest (and most influential) feminist film theorists, Laura Mulvey, observed in her landmark text, Visual
and Other Pleasures, "In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female" (19). In this way, the male can project his
sexual fantasies onto a female, which relegates her to an object of erotic desire, and enslaved by conventional stereotypes that are perpetuated to reinforce male dominance (Mulvey 19). Frequently,
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