Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:00:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Glen Norton <gnorton-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: RE: cinematic space and gender


Along with the 70's work of MacCabe and Mulvey already mentioned, you
might be interested in Baudrillard's book "Seduction", where he postulates
that the "masculine" is about production, or "making things
appear", whereas the "feminine" involves seduction, or "the play of
appearences", the appearance and disappearance of things. I think this has
many practical applications toward film, although I do have a big problem
with the essentalist notion of masculine/feminine in the first place. I
would be interested in how you conceive of the difference and of the
project you are working on. I agree with most of what Baudrillard says,
nut it is very hard to take his metaphors (if indeed that is what they
are) concerning the essental differences between masculine and feminine
discourse.

Glen

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Glen Norton
Graduate Programme in Film and Video
York University, Toronto, Canada

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"When you see your own photo, do you say you're a fiction?"
                                              -- Jean-Luc Godard
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