COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
101 to Understanding "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and A Perspective of Women's Role in Current Animation
Creator:
Hennrikus, Julia
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Animation
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Animation
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"This thesis is an investigation of how Laura Mulvey’s canonical 1975 essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' is often misread and misused by first time college readers when studying the text for film, cultural, or feminist theory. Further, the thesis will analyze three animated feature films to explore the current representation of the female form in animation. First, the three main factors that lead to first time readers' misunderstanding of 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' will be studied. They are as follows: the feminist context, the language context, and the psychoanalytical context. The thesis visual, a stop motion film 'We’re All Just People,' will step through how Mulvey can be misused. Lastly, the thesis will examine animated films release in the past five years which have a female lead to explore female representation. The findings will display a shift in the presentation of female roles in animation from the past and shed light on a hopeful future with equal representation on the horizon." --Abstract
*Keywords: visual pleasure, narrative cinema, Laura Mulvey, female representation, animation
*Keywords: visual pleasure, narrative cinema, Laura Mulvey, female representation, animation
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2020-11
Format:
PDF (49 pages) + 1 mp4 film (approximately 2 min., sound, color)