The first thing that catches one's eye in the commercial is the quality of film and the camera angles. ... The first view is from a camera that is on the ceiling. It angles down similar to how a security camera would. ... "The masculine role of being in charge is a tough one," declares Diane Barthel in her essay "A Gentleman and a Consumer." ... Instead of being interested in what they are getting for free, they immediately wonder what kind of woman is buying them this gift. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The country and western music is playing in the background off camera, which gives the spectator dirty tacky suspicion that is later confirmed by the later events. ... Thelma's attacker cuts in front of the camera, creating a physical barrier between the audience and Thelma, which gives this great sense of helplessness to the whole scene. ... ARGUMENT The gaze theory was written by Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist, in an essay called "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". ... However, in the end of the film they break free of these restraints. ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ... This does not conclude that these narratives are free from these misogynistic biases, rather that they are just aware of them and reference them to certain degrees. ... At the end of her essay Mulvey establishes three 'looks' in which this scopophilic dial...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate