![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Such contemporary reformulations of the male and female gaze are part of a decades-long revival of “gaze theory” as a tool for feminist media praxis across popular culture, online journalism, and feminist media production. Like Mulvey’s own work, which began as a public talk, these discussions are grounded in issues of practice. These maker/theorists take up ideas from Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” while leaving aside the manifesto’s specific commitments to formal analysis and Lacanian psychoanalysis. (01, 02, 03) In recent years, media producers like Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, and Joey (Jill) Soloway have discussed their work in terms of a desire to subvert “the male gaze” and invent “the female gaze” in Hollywood. Copyright 2021, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Mediaīeyond the gaze: seeing and being seen in contemporary queer media ![]()
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