Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema Quotes

Woman's desire is subjugated to her image (...) as bearer, not maker, of meaning.

It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the intention of this article.

Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by im- posing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.