By E. Ann Kaplan
Analyzes the therapy of ladies in American video clips and examines the subjects of quite a few modern videos made by means of ladies.
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It is significant, of course, that while this substitution is made to happen relatively easily in the cinema, in real life any such “swapping” is fraught with immense psychological difficulties that only psychoanalysis can unravel. In any case, such “exchanges” do not do much for either sex, since nothing has essentially changed: the roles remain locked into their static boundaries. Showing images of mere reversal may in fact provide a safety valve for the 30 | Women and Film social tensions that the women’s movement has created by demanding a more dominant role for women.
I have deliberately used “he” here since both Freud and Lacan assume a male subject. Part of my task is to make sense of the systems for the female. For more complete summary, see Bill Nichols, op. , pp. ) 20 | Women and Film 17 CINEMATIC VERSUS THE EXTRA-CINEMATIC Keeping this distinction clearly in mind prevents us from falling into the trap of sociological critics, and linking screen image and lived experience too simplistically. (a) The cinematic refers to all that goes on on the screen and to what happens between screen image and spectator (what results from the cinematic apparatus).
12 The difference between this male voyeurism and the female form is striking. For the woman does not own the desire, even when she watches; her watching is to place responsibility for sexuality at yet one more remove, to distance herself from sex. 13 Yet, some of the fantasies in Friday’s book show men’s wish to be taken over by an aggressive woman, who would force them to become helpless, like the little boy in his mother’s hands. A tour of Times Square in 1980 (the organization Women Against Pornography runs them regularly) corroborated this.