Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. ... Mulvey is initially concerned with people's obsession with narrative cinema. ... She uses Lacanian and Freudian theory to explain her castration complex: the idea that men and women have a fear of lacking a penis as a function of our patriarchal society. ... This gives men in the narrative an enormous amount of power in film and their women are either glamorized or tamed. ... An emotional rollercoaster, she flirtatiously plays with the idea even though s...

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But the current trend is leaning towards more of an interactive narrative. ... Mortal Kombat was the first major franchise to introduce such an idea. ... But the fact that a woman can cause something like this through her personal actions and lifestyle, leaves me absolutely dumbfounded. ...

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