FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN REAR WINDOW
FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN REAR WINDOW

Summary/Abstract: The nucleus of the ocularcentrist visual culture is the body—the fundamental object through which power relations are established. Feminist theoreticians propound a rejection of the stereotypes created by the patriarchal system in films. The means of doing this consists in exposing the offensive mechanisms whereby the woman is sexualized in the film industry. “The cinematic apparatus”, a syntagm proposed by Christian Mertz in his essay The Imaginary Signifier1 becomes a social technology. That is to say, a gendered one being absorbed by each individual whereto is addressed. To view a movie implies a process of identification with the camera, in which the notion of spectator serves as a substitute for the camera, the projector and the screen.

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