Sunday, 16 January 2011

Task 3

ESSAY PROPOSAL
The Brief: to write a 2000 word essay on an appropriate subject that demonstrates that you have understood the nature of academic writing.
  • a logical structure that has an intoduction, a developed argument that is su[[orted by reference to at least 6 different academic sources and a conclusion
  • a bibliography of at least 12 books that uses the Harvard Referencing system
  • the use of harvard conventions within the main text of the essay when using paraphrase or quoting from other authors

I have already been thinking a lot of what to do for my essay. I have decided that I would like to look at the Gaze as from all the lectures i found it the most interesting
things I might do the gaze on:
  • the media
  • music videos
  • photography
  • films
  • the male gaze
  • advertising
The Gaze: analysing visual culture that deals with how an audience views the people presented. the type of gaze are primarily categorized by who is doing the looking.

I am going to look more in to the male gaze in tv and films, here is a list of things I need to research.

Marilyn Monroe
Grace Kelly
Mean girls
Laura Mulvey's essay
Voyeuristic and fetishistic looking
Foucault-medical gaze
Bracha Ettinger
Jacques lacan
paul messaris
john berger-ways of seeing
hegemonic
Magazines-nuts-playboy. Striking a pose
advertising

Posible essay titles
  • The male gaze
  • The effect the male gaze has on today society
  • How Marylin Monroe effected the male gaze
  • How did Marylin Monroe's cinema characters effect the male gaze
  • What effect does James Bond have on the Male Gaze


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