FAU-341-01 Fine Arts Seminar II. Art reading questions.

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Answer 1
Scopophilia is one of the pleasures offered by mainstream cinema. In particular, it entails circumstances that elicit pleasure when one looks at them. When it comes to mainstream cinema, scopophilia involves perceiving individuals as objects and subjecting them to societal analysis of how their physical appearance brings pleasure (Mulvey 59). Films develop scopophilia in a narcissistic aspect without failing to satisfy their pleasurable looking.
Answer 2
Laura Mulvey criticizes several qualities of the mainstream cinema. First, she critiques the pleasure in looking in the film that makes women as objects of sexual attraction. Second, Mulvey does not like how mainstream films perceive erotic as the primary language in the dominant patriarchal society.
Answer 3
Based on Mulvey’s arguments, there exist two primary contradictory aspects of pleasurable structures in a conventional cinema...