The Male Gaze

The Male gaze is a term discussed by Laura Mulvey in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975). It is used to describe when the audience is put into…

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The Pictorial Turn

WJT Mitchell first used 'pictorial turn' in a 1992 article for ArtForum but expanded upon his arguments more fully in his influential book 'Picture Theory' (1994) The 'turn' part was…

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