However, Claude soon learns that that his father had done something terrible when he and his mother were walking down to the orchard and they saw that "the beautiful, round-topped cherry tree, full of green leaves, and red fruit,-his father had sawed it through" (Cather963-964). ...
From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...
