How do they facilitate an active/passive power dynamic? In what ways does it implicate the spectator to “identify” in a certain way with one of the characters?
Watch the following short clip of Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock and describe/explain how the “male gaze” functions in the scene between and Scottie. Pay attention to the interplay of looks that are going on between the camera angle, and the characters in the clip. How do they facilitate an active/passive power dynamic? In what ways […]