Following on from the post about James bond id like to link in the gaze. The gaze as a concept and narrative in art has always interested me. With regards to James bond in cinema he holds the typical male gaze within film. In a James bond film whenever an attractive female is on the screen she is panned from toe to head slowly as if the male is observing her. This is the typical male reaction when looking at a female.
Freud in his three essays on the theory of sexuality called this Scopophilla as with this gaze, you are taking the person as an object and subjecting them to a controlling curious gaze. In essence possessing them.
The extreme end of Scopophilla is a perversion making peeping toms whose only sexual gratification comes from watching.
I feel that my work has essences of the gaze within it. These crushed phallus around these animalistic women in one hand offer up men lured and trapped by man eating women. Or those trapped through they’re own search for sexual gratification and hedonism and then those who looked and sought to possess these women. This possession has backfired and they are then possessed and emasculated themselves.
Laura Mulvey from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
