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...

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This only goes to show that Stanley was a male chauvinist totally selfish and felt that women ought not be independent but to be domineered by men! ... In the middle of the passage, we note that the men take turns to go have a peek at the woman whilst working and they report to one another of the progress that she's made. ...

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In the article, "The Effect of Experimental Presentation of Thin Media Images on Body Satisfaction: A Meta-Analytic Review" Lisa Groesz, Michael Levine, and Sarah Murnen explain, "This perfect body has flawless skin, a thin waist, long legs, and well-developed breasts" (2). ...

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