voyeur

A person who engages in voyeurism.

Compare Peeping Tom

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Voyeurism

The practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, especially secretively.


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Male Gaze:

Male Gaze: From Laura Mulvey (1975), an analysis of media images which suggests that the camera represents a male perspective, and as such casts men as subjects and women as objects.

Mediation Theory 1

Mediation Theory 1

It is important to remember that when we look at a filmed image on the screen we are not looking at a real thing, but a reproduced image or representation of the real thing. In texts such as films, film-makers deliberately manipulate this image in order to stamp their artistic and creative seal upon it.

To take a simple example, film-makers can make a place seem inviting and pleasant by choosing to film it on a beautiful summer’s day and lighting it in a certain way. Equally, they can make a place appear menacing by filming it as a dark stormy place lit in such a way as to appear gloomy and full of shadows.

Let’s take a clear example: in the recent The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the film-makers were presented with the task of contrasting good and evil for the purposes of the story. They created the world of Middle Earth for the film, and presented some places as good (the shire) and others as evil (Mordor). The shire is presented as the epitome of good in the opening of The Fellowship of the Ring and Mordor as the epitome of evil in The Return of the King, and this clearly shown in the way in which it is presented visually. 

Mediation Theory 2

Mediation Theory 2

Mediation theory focuses on the way we receive our view of the world increasingly through the media in the information age.

Mediation takes as its premise the idea that we experience much of the world not from first hand experience, but through media outlets such as television and film.

Take, for example, the events of 11 September 2001: most of the world ‘experienced’ those events in a very real sense; however we saw them through media institutions, rather than through first hand experience. As such, the events were mediated to use through the media.

Where mediation becomes interesting, is in the process of manipulation that can take place. Those that produce the images that we see ( the mediators) have the ability to withhold certain information, and even the choice of creating an image that is altered for their own purposes. They have the ability to replace authentic reality for the manipulated hyperreality.

Take, for example, the soap Eastenders. Is it an authentic vision of East End London, or a fictional version very different from reality?