Essays on Gaze

Any person can acknowledge that sex sells, particularly Carl Jr. Considering the commercials done by Mr. Carl Jr., it is clear that he uses models that are extremely sexualized for more than ten years. There is no exception to the advert where Charlotte McKinney, a model was the center of everybody’s attention for the approximately 50 second commercial. After a closer look at the advert, this essay is to give its presentation more into what goes in the commercial rather than just boobs and burgers. Consideration is given to the distribution of characters (femininity versus masculinity), text and ...

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The problem is that a male –centric society doesn’t perceive beautiful women as full members of a society. Ann Cahill proclaims that beauty is a problem for the feminist theory. The author states that «feminists have often encouraged women to throw off the demands of beauty to gain social and political equality.» The idea of «male gaze» means that people change objects –especially women’s bodies – according to their «masculine» standards. In other words, men tend to perceive the beauty without their inner world (Cahill 42-64). For example, a woman makes herselfs beautiful and the ...

A billboard advertisement for a company called Voodoo, this ad was selected because it inverts the traditional roles of power between men and women. Intended for women’s gaze, the billboard ad animalizes and objectifies men, empowers women, shocks “conventional” morality, and does all the above under the cloak of anonymity. Clearly, the Voodoo advertisement’s intended audience is young, career-oriented, ambitious women with a flair for fashion and hipness. Pictured in the ad is a slender, leggy woman wearing tight red leggings (the winter hosiery) and black leather shoe-boots with stiletto heels. She also wears a leopard-print blouse, ...

Fears and Expectations in The King’s Speech

Speech impediments are often the highlight of ridicule which leaves traumatic and ongoing scars in the individual. The King’s Speech highlights these scars by portraying in detail King George VI’s battle with his speech impediment. His stammering has caused him to lose confidence in himself, most especially with all the expectations that people latch onto him as part of the royal family. These viewpoints are often attributed as a lack of skill in the individual rather than being seen and tackled in a more serious regard. King George VI, or Bertie to his close relations, stammers more ...

Abstract

Eye movement tracking and analysis has gained popularity as a critical tool for evaluating interfaces and visual display. Existing tools and methods that are used in analyzing scan paths and eye movements are to a greater extent limited in the nature of tasks that they support. In particular, the tools used have been found ineffective in tracking large amounts of data that has high variations. Eye movement analysis has been used in psychology, medical research, advertising, and cognitive science. Today, using CCTV cameras, human eye gaze, and eye movement and blinking is relatively recorded with ease and with high ...

Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin is considered the first Chinese feminist literary work. It is a classic written in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The novel privileged the female as compared to the male characters. Cao Xueqin attaches significance to women as evidenced by the presence of multiple female characters. The novel explores the contours of a fading feudal system and the social crisis that it is has to contend with. Most of all, it is a celebration of womanhood. Cao wrote the novel to remember women who were ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

Introduction

The landscape has often been used as a descriptive element and to create an atmospheric perspective in art work by different artists since ancient times. Beautiful landscapes are believed to detoxify the spirit and mind, and carry a healing power as stated by Andrews (1999, p.53). They are an effort by the artist to capture the fleeting moment of nature in time on the canvas.Thesis “The Shore at Trouville Sunset Effect” by Courbet, who is known to initiate the Realist movement in 19th-century that bridged the Romantic Movement and the Impressionists (The Shore at Trouville Sunset Effect, 2016). The ...

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Sammy works at a small town grocery store located near the beach as a cashier. He’s nineteen years old. While he’s at work, three girls walk into the store wearing bathing suits. Sammy as well as others in the store are distracted by the naked flesh. The three girls, headed by Queenie, are well aware of the male gaze. Towards the end of the story, Lengel, the manager of the store, tells Queenie that they are inappropriately dressed. At this instant, Sammy quits his job. He realizes that life is going to hard for him thereafter. Examine ...

Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 science fiction film Under the Skin is a supremely stylized, innately profound work that utilizes kaleidoscopic visuals and an unsettling performance from Scarlett Johannson to explore issues of the male gaze and take them to their furthest conclusion. Telling the story of an alien (Johansson) who comes to Earth and entices men with sex for her own twisted, mysterious purposes, Under the Skin charts the progression of a woman’s experience by simultaneously giving her a power and a predatory agency that women are not typically afforded, then stripping that agency away bit by bit ...

David Fincher’s 1999 film adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel Fight Club provides a uniquely slick, stylish filmic presentation of the book’s gritty, darkly comic sensibilities. Tracking the life of a disillusioned, emasculated, narrator (known only as Jack in the film, played by Edward Norton) and his newfound rebellion against the existential crises of modern American life with the help of charismatic lowlife Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club explores both the immense appeal of rebelling against the hegemonic systems set up for men in late capitalist society and the unique beauty and eroticism of masculinity. Director ...

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Body ornamentation is the deliberate alteration of the human physical appearance done for sexual enhancement, aesthetics, religious beliefs, and rites of passage. In the recent years, body ornamentation has become famous in the whole world as people tend to identify themselves using different decorations or changes in physical appearances. The practice has been in existence for several years and the most recent ones that have appeared in the society are seen as means of enhancing the beauty of a person. However, it is important to take caution since some of these body ornamentations have negative effects on the human ...

1. In Roman paintings, the dangerous wife challenges gender norms, according to which, the woman in the family is the upholder of morality, and subject to the will of her husband. In the murals found in the House of Jason (Bergmann “Pregnant”), gender roles are both reinforced and challenged, by the choice of subjects. Adultery, like incest and infanticide, as represented by Helen, Phaedra and Medea, destroy the sanctity of blood relations and threatens patriarchy. Their actions contradict the expectations that women are nurturing, loyal and virtuous However, the stories punish these women with exile or death, reflecting the ...

Historically, women have been educated to develop opposite characteristics to men, and occupy contrasting roles. Thus, women have been constructed as passive while men have been perceived as active. This is because men went to war, performed public functions or courted women, while women waited at home for men to return, they were rescued or abused, gazed upon, or conquered. Today, women continue to occupy the same positions in the society. Katha Pollitt argues that “the paradox is that the world of rigid and hierarchal sex roles evoked by determinist theories is already passing away”, (382). Sports advertisements could ...

Albrecht Durer was a versatile and gifted German artist of the Renaissance period. The brilliant painter left a strong impact on the medium of printmaking and commercial centers in Europe. The artist is known to create a number of striking self-portraits that assert his creative genius (Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) 2016). His Self-Portrait wearing a coat with fur collar is done on a wooden panel in 1500. The essay discusses the Self-Portrait as well as the importance of the gaze in the portrait that is considered the most personal and complex. The self-portrait was done in 1500 was ...

Ideology and ideograph commonly in political discourse are concepts that are mostly used to have support for political positions. The words used in such cases do not have meanings that are clear but then they are used to bring out the impression of clear meaning.

Michael Calvin McGee used this term in a more clear way. He claimed that many people used the term without knowing its meaning clearly as a synonym for doctrine in political organizations. When human beings are put together they think and behave differently than when they are separated from each other (Mc Gee p.120). Collective ...

Questions for Women and Cinema

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1. Transgender It is a state in which an individual’s gender is not matching his or her assigned sex responsibility. It refers to the trans-genders, such as homosexual, bisexuals, heterosexual. In the Paris burning film, the issue of Transgender is explored using various characters men and women. For instance, Trans women used as members of the club to show realness. The women are sued to enhance transgender in the film, this shows that as much as they are women they can also compete men and become real (Besnier and Kalissa 34).

2. Monstrous-feminine The female ...

Gender equality is significant in every field especially the modern days unlike aerial where on male gender that was vied as the superb gender in everything they do.One find that the female gender are thriving on any given field and to some extent they are even doing grate in some of these field than even their counter parts from the male gender. Similarly the in the construction of cinemas or the in the field of film the female gender is no longer left behind. Research on field of film acting has come to agreed with one of the essay ...

Revealing both the best and worst aspects of humanity, the Renaissance was characterized by extraordinary human achievements, a heightened interest in human potential and, paradoxically, by superstition, witch-hunting, exorcism and torture. The humanism of Renaissance had four main themes: the belief in the individual’s potential, a tendency to view religion as being more personal rather than institutionalized, an increased interest in the classics, a rejection of Aristotelian philosophy in order to develop a more scientific attitude. As the ecclesiastical power started to deteriorate, the pressure of having to fit scientific inquiry with Christian dogma decreased, making inquiry steadily more objective. Copernicus ...

Traditionally, women's role in society has always been a silenced voice, which comes across through their depictions in paintings. The passive female image with the conventional Venus pose is ubiquitous with the classical representation of feminism. The perception of feminism in the 19th century was expressed and can be elucidated through the medium of artwork, noting the daring advances that occurred in art that both inspired and represented the increased progressiveness that feminism was experiencing. Mary Cassatt's "Women in Black at the Opera" explores the emancipation of feminism, through her painting style and all aspects of female ...

Introduction

Gaze following is one of the fundamental child behaviour used to not only determine their physical development but also the cognitive growth of the child. This paper seeks to focus on gaze following and related social understanding of this concept. It seeks to determine the meaning of various behaviours and interpretations such as lean and rich interpretations in psychology. In addition, it will focus on the blind-folding and eye closure experiment for the gaze following to determine when in facts follows objects on sight. The discussion will be extended to the determination of how gaze following can enable infants ...

Nobody hates looking at women’s funny character in movies. Something that mulvey well put across. The conditions of watching a move in the cinema gives authority to a voyeuristic spectatorship. All spectators are chirping characters taking pleasure and watching others while they remain unseen. In other fields, feminists have identified voyeurism as violence that is because of gender. The chirping character is most often a man-watching female without her knowledge. Most of the funny erotic scenes, you find a woman fully exposing her body and private parts but never will you find a man doing so. The power of the man’s look ...

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Brain imaging techniques are useful to study different areas of the brain. There are many popular imaging techniques present in the media. Any technique that deals with the structure of the brain and evaluate the mechanism of the brain comes in cognitive brain imaging techniques. In a research study, I read about two techniques PET and MRI. PET stands for positron emission tomography. It helps in identifying disease, working of organs and tissues in the body. MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging. It also scans the detailed images of organs and tissues present in the body. However, these brain imaging ...

Introduction

Advertisers, graphic designers, and organizations in general that aim to advertise or promote follow principles, practices, and techniques in order to accomplish their objects. Often, the objective of advertisers, graphic designers, and organizations is to communicate a specific message to the audience (Barker, Valos, & Shimp, 2012; Shimp & Andrews, 2013). Similarly, the message often intends to stir a positive and productive response on the part of the audience. Within the context of consumerism, the objective of advertisers and graphic designers that work for business organizations would be to create images in advertisements that would appeal to the audience as consumers. In other ...

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Modernism and technology has transformed women from their limits of housekeeping to taking up leadership positions. A modern woman has the freedom to choose her path and work towards being what she desires to become. The last five decades has however seen women limiting their positions of power. With all the options available to them, most of them have realised that they cannot necessarily manage some positions and therefore resolving to take lower status. In this paper, we take a critical look of some investigative materials on why women are making such decisions that may be considered ridiculous. This ...

Madonna and Child with Book, c. 1502-03

Raffaello Sanzio also called Raphael Italian, 1483-1520Oil on panel21-3/4 x 15-3/4 in. (55.2 x 40 cm)Norton Simon Art FoundationM.1972.2.P This painting by Raphael is probably one of the best known icons of the Italian Renaissance, and brings together several of the artist’s characteristics. Raphael’s work is singularly well known both for its considerable clarity of form as well as the ease with that the composition of his paintings are viewed. The painting’s title is Madonna with Child and Book and was completed in around 1503 for Pope Julius II and was initially located ...

Women in art have always been a very mysterious and intriguing object to observe, both from the perspective of women as an object and a subject for the painting. Mona Lisa is possibly the most recognized painting in the world. She still puzzles its every observer with her gaze and feeble smile, welcoming him to silent communication. Frida Kahlo is the world’s most recognized woman artist. However, she neither invites for silent conversation in her Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, nor does she puzzle the observer. What Frida does, is pictures her soul openly and frankly, not hiding anything, not leaving ...

For a long time, black people together with their culture were grossly marginalized,l and their literature attracted little attention from the mainstream film and literature industry. This led to the emergence of black literature that championed for the social justice and equality in the country. It was a cry of recognition and the need of equality. The African American film criticism and commentaries were marginalized in both popular and scholarly histories and critical reevaluation as noted by the author of ‘Returning the Gaze’. The exclusion of black critics in the mainstream led to an explosion of black American press ...

Voluptuous Mors

It is a matter of prominent curves running through a black veil that flows beneath them. A game between the lights and the angles. Seven models position themselves to form a skull as the artist stands on the side with an alarmed gaze. Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter, partners with photographer Philippe Halsman to create a surrealist human skull (1951). The image depicts Dali standing next to the models with an "enfreaked gaze” as Ann Millett would write. He is looking at the possible third spectator, implying that there is something in the image that should be looked at awareness, if not caution. This ...

Ernest Cole, the local, historical context of Apartheid in South Africa

Ernest Cole (1940-1990) is a South-African photographer that presents some of his artwork in Grey Art Gallery in New York University. The show illustrates powerful images of life in South Africa in the 60s. All the photos taken have a lasting impression. Some of his photographs are on view at the NYU gallery while others appear House of Bondage, his book published in 1967. Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg is a Swedish firm that supports Cole in his photography and other invention. The premier of Col’s gallery took place in Johannesburg in 2010. Presently it is available in European countries as well ...

Antonello da Messina created the Portrait of a Young Gentleman in 1474. This is the picture of a man, as the title denotes, and we can presume that this is the actual likeness of an individual, as the characteristics of the face seem to be particularly telling even to the point of depicting unflattering details, like the big nose. Dressed primarily in black, with a grey undershirt, the man is presented in a three-quarter view staring directly at the viewer, confronting him/ her with what art historians call a ‘steady gaze’ (‘Portrait of a young gentleman’). The clothes of the man, although simple, seem to ...

The City and State

Michel Foucault on Visibility and Power Power analysis is one of the fundamental aspects of Michael Foucault’s philosophical writings. He interprets the power based on the relationship that it creates between society and the institutions in it. Foucault differentiates his idea of power from that fronted by the Marxist. The Marxists view power as a tool of oppression and a form of repression (Foucault 1977, 3). He asserts that the power is not a possession of institutions that can be used and abused for the pleasure of the beholder. The Instead, Foucault focuses on the power, how it is acquired, ...

Comparison and Contrast Analysis

The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, 1495-1498 Art Analysis 2 Virgin and Child, Antonio Veneziano c. 1380 Art Analysis 3 I decided to compare and contrast The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, painted between 1495 and 1498 and Virgin and Child by Antonio Veneziao painted around 1380. The Last Supper is representative of the Renaissance period that had its birthplace in Italy where daVinci lived and worked it housed in a convent, Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. Madonna and Child is an example of Gothic period and is on display at the Museum ...

Who can’t recognize the image of a voluptuous blonde woman trying to hold her white skirt down as a gust of wind from a subway grate blows it up? She may be in an embarrassing position, but her face does not show it. Instead, she is seen laughing with genuine pleasure on her face like she is just having fun. This is the image of Marilyn Monroe which reminds people that she is a true icon of beauty and sensuality, full of confidence and poise that reflects in her every picture. What is perhaps not known by many is that during that ...

Historical Overview on the Development of Learning Theories

There are several theories that describe how a person learns. These theories stem from the fact that the learning ability of one person is unique from the other. Learning is a relatively permanent modification in behavior to include the observed activity and the internal processes involved such as thinking, attitudes and emotions. Some studies also include motivation as part of the definition of the learning process. The manifestations of learning cannot be noticed immediately in the observable behavior of an individual. However, the manifestation takes place after the educational program is introduced to the person (Dunn, 2002). The origins of ...

Theory of mind is a phrase that was introduced by woodruff and Premack. The two carried some experimental to demonstrate that higher mental capacities are possible in nonhuman primates. Their initial experiment triggered other researchers to carry extensive research on ToM. Through these researches a number of definitions for Tom have been arrived. One such definition states that the theory of mind is the ability to conceptualize, to represent and to reason about the mental states. The theory of mind is simply the ability of an individual to inference what others may be feeling or thinking, and to predict their actions ...

Provide critical analysis of a film, specifically in relation to elements of the film’s style and other topics you consider relevant. Psycho (1960) The film Psycho, by the stalwart director, Alfred Hitchcock, is one of the most iconic films in the history of cinema. The film bears the testimony to the aesthetic excellence and usage of quintessential film techniques by the director. The film has left an everlasting mark on the minds of the audience across the globe, and enjoys immense popularity even on the present day. The director places the audience away from the movie’ ...

The relationship between the Madonna and the Christ child has been a subject of myriad works by a number of important artists, particularly in the decadent Italian Renaissance with its emphasis on the exploration of the divine. Of particular import and beauty is Filippino Lippi’s rendition of the Madonna and Child, in which the Madonna holds her child on her lap as he plays with a Bible. This subgenre of Renaissance painting inspires numerous questions and approaches to a variety of subjects, from man’s relationship to nature and God to a mother’s loving relationship with her child. The juxtaposition of the ...

In her article The Oppositional Gaze

Bell Hooks introduces to her readers that a certain sort of look, the “oppositional gaze” has been responsible for many children being punished by their parents because this gaze was see as “confrontational, as gestures of resistance, challenges to authority” (Hooks, 115). Her paper “The Oppositional Gaze” is about many different gazes, the power each is perceived to have, and how a minority group, black female spectators, deals with this issue. Her overall point deals with the marginalization of black women not just in the society but also in the entertainment industry. The larger context in relation to the class is ...

The Secessionist Movement (Jugendstill) Klimt-schiele and others

The camaraderie of Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstatte, Vienna around 1900 was one of the cribs of contemporary painting. The Foundation Beyeler mounted the initial complete show specific in Switzerland to varied themes. One point of view revealed two-hundred paintings, watercolors and sketches backed by models of architect, furniture and fixtures, textile designs, artists’ posters, photographs, and silver objects. Viennese modernism at the heart of a show exposed famous decorative sketches and sceneries of Gustav Klimt, the explicit shape depictions of Egon Schiele, and the well-known drawings of both artists. Gustav Klimt from 1862 to 1918 remained the influencer in ...

Christina’s world is a painting by American artist Andrew Wyeth. The painting is an immaculate depiction of a woman, mournfully and pensively musing at her house. Although her gaze is hidden from the viewer, as Christina is turned away from the artist and depicted from the back, her figure suggests her mood to be redolent with melancholy and sadness. The painting was painted three years after the artist’s father had been killed in a railway accident (MoMA, 2009). Evidently, this tragedy had a great impact on Andrew Wyeth’s art and this shock and grief had progressed into the further ...

1 Overview In order to assess the importance of modest concept in Islamic fashion especially for Muslim women out-wear this study investigates the effects of western fashion on the Islamic fashion. 1.1 Objectives - Evaluate the likelihood for long term adoption of emerging fashions. 1.2 Research questions - How can we define Islamic fashion concept? - How does a man’s concept of Islamic Fashion differ from a female? - What is the importance of modest concept in Islamic Fashion? - Is the Islamic world exposed to a wide variety of fashion or a narrow? ...

Introductory Essay – The Differences in the Female Nude

Throughout the history of fine art, one of the many recurring images found within it is the image of the female nude. The appreciation and replication of the female body in its purest form has fascinated artists for centuries, and some variation of it seems to appear in nearly every era or movement of art. To that end, it is interesting to note the changes that occur in style, composition, attitude and meaning between the different eras of art when dealing with the singular, unifying subject of the female nude. This exhibition seeks to examine the female nude in ...

Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a book that succeeded to blend the notification and fiction depicting the circumstances revolving the Ethiopian revolution in early 1970s. Despite the fact that the author relies on political and historical accounts that were written by the non-Ethiopians and some of the Ethiopians, she tactically dramatized several pertinent and complex series of event such as the social and cultural themes with all of them made her novel appear as an impressive fictional literature work. Furthermore, like many other Ethiopians, the author of this novel is proud and has a desire to tell the experience of the ...

The art of the female nude has been one of the few major constants in art, with various forms of the subject being represented in nearly every major art movement for the past 400 years. From the High Renaissance to the Cubist movement of the early 20th century, the depiction of the female nude has undergone many different changes in style, aesthetic and significance in meaning. By examining some of the most well-known paintings of these eras, it is possible to gain an appreciation for the changes that took place in ideology and art style from one time in ...

The 1958 thriller Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is commonly considered to be one of the finest films ever made, and one of the best works of Hitchcock’s career. The tale of a former police officer (James Stewart) who must deal with his issues with heights while also tracking a woman through two different lifetimes, Vertigo is a masterclass in filmmaking’s most subtle and effective techniques, resulting in a work that stands the test of time. Through its innovative use of mise-en-scene, music, performance and more, the film allows for a stunning look into paranoia and duality, raising questions about identity and ...

Introduction

An ‘armchair tourist’ is a term that refers to an individual that travels to different places and experiences people and culture in other countries in the comfort of his or her own home. The armchair tourist lives vicariously through the hosts that travel around the world for a living and share their experiences in the media. The travel series genre feature these kinds of shows where hosts travel and experience local culture to inform the audience but mostly to entertain viewers and communicate underlying messages to them. Often, the message of travel shows exemplifies the consumer culture, that is, travel shows ...

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Bazin explains that photographic lens is a true reflection of the world. The lens automatically creates an image that is real and that is captured as it was. This means that photography gives a reality of the world as it is and does not depend on the creative nature of artists. According to Bazin, photography lens is objective reflection of the world. He goes further and argues that photography give satisfaction to an individual’s deep need for reality or precisely termed as realism. In the image chosen, the pictures give a true image of the world, for instance, in the first ...

CULTURAL POLITICS

V92CUP The Contestation of Power within Modern Day Belly Dance: A Cultural Politics Approach Introduction The origins and purpose of belly dance have no clear historical background. However, it has a very strong root from the Middle East and has spread into the Western world today. More and more women are getting involved in this dance as they try to embrace their feminine essence. Unfortunately, due to its historical background, belly dance has a negative connotation to it because of the erotic attachment behind its dance movement. Despite the said fact, men and even women would still spend money ...

Voyeurism towards Women in Film: Rear Window

In the contemporary society cinema offer images that are geared towards male viewing pleasure, this is within set psychoanalytic paradigm like the voyeurism and scopophilia. Arguably, the concept of gaze is basically about the relationship of images and pleasure. In psychoanalysis, scopophilia is defined as pleasure derived in looking while exhibitionism is the pleasure of being evaluated. Manlove (88) notes that these two terms acknowledges the manner in which reciprocal relationships of viewing can derive pleasure. As such, Voyeurism can be referred to as looking while one is not being seen; it carries an exceptionally negative undertone of a powerful ...

Face-to-face communication is a method of conveying and retrieving information through straight interaction between the source and receiver. In this case, straight indicates that there are no communication devices such as letters, phones, computers, letters or telegrams are used in the communication process. In the contemporary world there are many methods of communication whose suitability’s varies according to occasions. This has been made by the technological advancements that are currently higher than ever before (Winger, 248). Modern communication technology is wonderful but it has its restrictions. If a person indeed wants to reach indulgent in altercation with others, there ...

“I never loved him,” I said; and at that moment I felt free as never before.

Those four simple words were very hard to say. For the latest weeks I had been saying them in my mind all the time. There they did feel right, but did not anymore when I said them aloud. Tom regarded me with that piercing gaze of his commanding eyes. I knew this gaze; it always got me weak and incapable of making my own decisions. And that both firm and tender intonations in his voice, when he began reminding me of our sacred memories, I knew it too. I always felt weak near him. In fact that might ...

Bikinis, full lips, thin waists, gyrations – the black woman in a rap video is usually one of many, surrounding the male rapper in question with a stable of women he implicitly has sexual command over. This is the image that is often found in most rap videos, at least as far as women are concerned. Due to the exclusive and alienating nature of a substantial portion of these images, representation has turned into misrepresentation, as many people use these portrayals to characterize the entirety of African-American femaleness in an incorrect and unflattering way. Joan Morgan, in her essay “from Fly-Girls to Bitches ...

GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN BOLLYWOOD CINEMA: exploring heterosexuality in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and queerness in Dostana (2008)

Introduction

In India’s populist film industry, mostly known as Bollywood, male sexual friendships and depictions are still fairly new. usually, the female is the primary focus of lust and sexual attention (resulting in an extremely male gaze), but since the arrival of handsome, chiseled actors like Amitebh Bachchan in the 1990s this has started to change. The concepts of yaar and yaari now play an important role in the fabric of Bollywood buddy comedies; the yaari is a kind of relationship that ...

Book VII - On Shadows and Realities in Education

SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will ...

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to conduct an analysis three works of art. First, the paper will present the background information about the artists, followed by description of each art piece and origin and the current location of the art work. Secondly, the paper will explain the artistic message that each artist intended to communicate. In general, the paper will evaluate and analyze the works based on research, using artistic vocabulary, and concepts. Drawing is a form of visual art made with a pen, pencil, or crayon rather than paint. Drawing also refers to virtual representation of forms or ...

Analysis of Christ The Good Shepherd

The artwork portrays many colors and also includes a tapestry of patterns. Symmetrical flowers appear as a sky, or enclosing tunnel surrounding a rocky hillside where Jesus is depicted surrounded by a half dozen sheep who are all engaged in looking at Jesus. The colors are primary, with plenty of blue, green, white, brown and earthen tones present in the work. The patterns, consist of eight pronged flowers and read globes, further surrounded by a circle ring and what appears to be vines or vegetation growing from it. The most striking colors appear as the sky and foreground colors and their patterns, which ...

Introduction

Answering to the two questions at issue about gender and more specifically about a man and a woman this essay tends to explain, support and discuss the thesis question. Both man and woman who together make a family and live harmoniously characterize the human race. A man cannot reproduce and bring human kind to being. The physical attributes are XY for men and XX for women, which will include their sex hormones and chromosomes, and as well as other internal and external organs. In most of the funny erotic scenes, it is a woman who fully exposes her body and private parts but ...

Pictures and Word on Those Pictures

Introduction ‘Your body is a battleground’, is an illustrious art work made by Barbara Kruger in the wake of 1989’s pro-choice march for women rights that took place in Washington D.C. Barbara Kruger is a conceptual artist, a feminist, a socio-political critic, a radical and a postmodern well-known for her atypical depiction of political and social dissent. Born in New Jersey, America in 1945, she attended School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University and later on studied art and design at Parsons School of Design in New York. She did various jobs of graphical designer, picture editor, head designer, and art director in the ...

Report on a Research Article

- What is the name of your journal? The journal I have analyzed in the preparation of this report is Journal of Experimental Psychology: General edited by Gauthier Isabel. - For whom does it seem to have been written? For example, is it directed towards a special kind of psychologists? Does it include articles that would be of interest to educators or others outside the field of academic psychology? If so, list several titles. Empirical research is a crucial aspect in the lives of all kinds of psychologists. With this in mind, the journal contains articles that seem ...