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A feminist concept theorized by Laura Mulvey to describe how visual media is based around a heterosexual masculine perspective, reducing women into objects of desire.
How does Perfect Blue and Black Swan represent the fragmentation of identity under the pressure of the voyeuristic Male Gaze?
Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue (1997) Resource: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156887/
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Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) Resource: https://spoilertown.com/black-swan-2010/
"She must survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men is of crucial importance."
(John Berger, 1972)
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