TASK 11:

Laura Mulvey is a succesful producer and director and producer, and has written and edited many books about the feminist theory adn how are females represented in movies.
she wrote many important books and essays and one of her important essayes is called 'visual pleasure and narative cinema', in this essay she used ideas of psychoanalytics Freud, where she reinterpreted his idea of Scopophilia, which is the pleasure of watching what shouldn't be watched.
Mulvey describes the women as a male gaze and that she is always represented as a gaze in movies,in order to attract males and that males are patriachal and rule the female.
she also uses the theory of Freud which is the 'anal stage' 'the oral stage' which are the two main concepts of the child development.
Then the Scopophilia concept which refers to the mature adult's desire to see things which we are forbidden to see and we're not supposed to be seeing.
The theory of the Male gaze which is the other concept that Mulvey exapnded on, that women are represented as 'objects' in films and they are always ruled by males and she also descibed the women 'to-be-looked-at-ness', that she should be looked at.In hollywood movies, the audience identfies with the male protagonuist in viewing the female.
the audience sees the female actress as a gaze or look. where laura mulvey described it as the voyeuristic where the women are there to be admired and not as a sex object, the Fetish where she is looked in a very sexual way.
How can it be related to my study?
it can be somehow related to my study, eventhough it is not the main the theory, because in the movie we see many scenes which represent the female as a sex object, as 50 Cent's mother where we see many males attracted to her, and the other scene when 50Cent is attracted by the female, his wife where again which might indicate that she is represented as a male gaze and also she is shown as supportive and a house-wife where she is caring for her husband and her child.
in this movie 50cent's wife can be seen from a voyeuristic point of view because she is not really represented as a sex object, however she is looking beautifull and not a sex obejct,but in the movie there are some sexual scenes where she can be seen as a fetish object.
50 Cent's mother is represented as a male gaze where she attracts males,and she is also represented as a 'femme fatale', and also there is a use of the 'Saddism' because she is being punished and being killed because she used to be involved in drugs etc...