Subject: Re: cinematic space and gender
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 97 13:41:17 +1000
From: Adrian Miles <amiles-AT-rmit.edu.au>


On 2/9/97 2:50 PM , George Boesger mentioned:

>> kathy wrote:
>> >Can anyone direct me to articles which extensively discuss the issue of
>> cinematic space and gender
>> 
>> I would recommend reading "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" by Laura
>> Mulvey.  The copy of the article that I have appears in the book _Art After
>> Modernism: Rethinking Representation_ 1984, Godine.

I'm not clear, but the impression I got from the original post was for 
something quite explicitly about representational space and 
masculine/feminine modes of space. Alas I don't think I have any 
references at hand. Though I do have a dim bell going off about Dreyer's 
use of space in _Day of Wrath_ (tableau-becoming-circular) that someone 
has described as 'feminine' construction (or experience) of space.

If this is the sort of thing you're seeking then I would look at Gaston 
Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space" as a prelminary point (though it never 
mentions cinema), and then maybe Sobchack's "The Address of the Eye" (on 
the assumption that some notion of an experiential knowledge might be 
important to the question). I do know I have some something recently that 
was explicitly about gendered spaces but a quick browse of titles hasn't 
helped me. If I find it I'll post it....

anyway, apologies about the lack of detail here.

adrian miles


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