Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 05:35:12 -0800 (PST)
From: rutger h cornets de groot <cornets-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: voyeurism


The answers you provide apply to everything: watching
car accidents, reading novels, overhearing
conversations, etc., etc. The question is: 

> >What role does voyeurism play in the cinematic
> expereience?

So, we have to restrict ourselves and try to establish
a connection between the idea of voyeurism and the
language of cinema. 
In order not to be spotted, a voyeur hides, preferably
in a dark space. He does not partake in the action, he
merely watches. He may need a device to get a better
picture of the scene. Finally, he prefers to watch
scenes that are not part of his own everyday life, but
that bring him into another world.

These appear to be 4 traits that the voyeur and the
moviegoer have in common. However, I believe that
there has been a sentiment among several film makers
to put an end to this unfair relationship and make the
movie watcher/voyeur pay by making him partially
responsible for what is displayed on the screen.
Perhaps, the "nouvelle violence" movement was one such
example.


> To me, this is such a broad topic!
> I'm not a film "scholar" but these are some of my
> ideas...
> I would imagine we are always interested in the
> lives of others and how we 
> compare to ours.
> We have a basic need to want to see inside the lives
> of others and
> films allow us to pretend".
> We are interested in lives that quite different from
> our own.
> It is a chance to live through others things we
> might never experience.
> It is a chance to see/experience things that are
> forbidden to us in real 
> life?
> 
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