Voyeurism

unrealistic expectations on women. Girls grow up with mass media and even toys dictating what a woman should look like. Women have been discriminated in many aspects of life and visual art is not exception. When analyzing female depictions such motifs as voyeurism, objectification, scopophilia, and woman as an object of male pleasure are most likely to appear (Snow,30). Saint Barbie by Mark Ryden, is a ten by fourteen inch oil on panel paining. It depicts a little blond girl in a pink dress…

Kora Lahm Hour: 1 The film Psycho was made on September 8, 1960, by Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho was Hitchcock’s most successful film and it’s said to be the best horror film of all time. Most of the film focuses on Marion Crane, a Phoenix real-estate secretary. Marion was trusted by her employer to take $40,000 to the bank, but she sees the opportunity to take the money and start a new life. With the money, she leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. During a storm, she gets off the…

Women were seen as sex symbols and tools to make the male lead, or hero, more appealing. They were the assisting actor who was to never steal the spotlight, and to only make the male character more relatable for the audience. In Laura Mulvey’s essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” we see how women are truly portrayed in the business of entertainment. Women are seen in Hollywood films as expendable and an untainted, virgin body image. Their characters weren’t as important as males, or as…

murder. The entire sequence was made possible by the use of a Steadicam, which at the time was becoming an important tool in cinematography”. Konow (2017) Deep focus requires that elements at very different depths of the image both be in focus. An example to deep focus can be seen in The Witch (2016). Characters and space are given equal importance in the shots. Shallow focus is used to direct the viewer to one element of a scene such as a close up of a face an example of…

Furthermore, in many states first or second-degree sexual assault crimes involve non-consensual contact and or sexual activity (Sprague). Not only that, but state laws also consider non-contact sexual abuse such as harassment and voyeurism as sexual assault. In the state of Texas, sexual assault is considered a grave offense under Penal Code, Title 5, chapter 22 section 22.011 (Justice) . Under this penal code, charges can be elevated to aggravated sexual assault based on certain circumstances…

Early on in Martin Scorsese’s new film, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) cheerfully describes money as being like “mainlining adrenaline.” Belfort, the real-life rogue trader who set up Long Island stockbroking film Stratton Oakmont, is depicted in the film as reckless, obnoxious, and sexist. Nonetheless, as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, he is a very likeable character. We can’t help but root for him. Everything about The Wolf of Wall Street is excessive. It’s a three-hour orgy of greed,…

Visuals and the Violated: Women in Julie Taymor’s Titus Up until the past few decades, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus was never taken seriously by critics or audiences. As a revenge tragedy set in ancient Rome, the story is one of never-ending, over the top violence, which viewers may find hard to sit through without rolling their eyes, or at least becoming entirely desensitized. When Julie Taymor created the film version of this text, Titus, in 1999, she attempted to utilize visual…

Sexual Assault Prevention on College Campuses College is supposedly the “best years of your life”, but this is not the reality for approximately twenty percent of college-aged women. The constant fear of becoming a victim of sexual assault is growing concern among young women on college campuses. Action needs to be taken immediately to protect the women at college and universities across America. Due to the high levels of sexual assault occurring on college campuses, college and university…

People with this paraphilia get sexual arousal from giving or receiving pain. Masochist get pleasure from receiving pain and sadists get pleasure from giving pain. Fourth is Voyeurism. People receive sexual pleasure from fantasizing or viewing others who are naked or having sex. The people they’re viewing have to be unsuspecting. The fifth paraphilia is Exhibitionism. This is when they expose their genitals to an unsuspecting…

Sullivan’s installation exposes viewers to the concept of exhibitionism, voyeurism, and even sexual fetishes like urolagnia (arousal associated with urine) and coprophilia (arousal and pleasure from feces). In the installation, you can see mini model sized robots sitting in a theater with their hands stimulating their exposed genitals…