Chapteir 3: Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge

Chapter three discusses psychoanalysis and other forms of spectatorship, power and knowledge. It describes how art gives us a since of pleasure and allows us to describe our disires through looking at it. Spectatorship and psychoanalysis are based on the theories of a guy who worked in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sigmund Freud. He and a man named Jacques Lacan have similar ideas in that they studied the subconscious.

And example of Hagenamy is when parents try to control their children, the dominant culture is being counterd. Kind of ties in with subculture. Where the smaller culture begins to go agains the dominant culture, like how the government does not change culture as much as religion.

What does it mean to "gaze". It is a way of seeing. In some portraits and photographs children and women begin to gaze back at the camara. They are becoming brave and showing that they can stand by themselves. In Sally Mann's photos of her children, we see that they gaze back at the camara. Laura Mulvey is a theorist from the mid-70s. She gazed objectivly at women she made women goddess-like. She made people less real, held them up on a pedistal. She also argues the movies are made for guys - to see the world as a guy.