I saw a paper on “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid” on Twitter this morning (via Sarah Rose Cavanaugh), and it made me think I should post something very slightly related, viz. this short handout for undergrad English majors, which I originally put together for the Lit 1860-1945 course that I taught last fall. Terms include “deconstruction,” “Symbolic order,” and “male gaze.”
E.g.:
| male gaze | A visual orientation structured by gender that treats the female body as spectacle. Women can occupy the male gaze; in fact, that is what classic narrative cinema requires female viewers to do, since the camera is structured by the male gaze. |
| source: | Laura Mulvey, “Visual Cinema and Narrative Pleasure,” 1975 |
| associated with: | psychoanalytic film theory |
| does not mean: | a male point of view, any particular man’s perspective |
