Stills from Otto Preminger's Laura, 1944
"Woman as image, man as bearer of the look."
‘Men dream of women. Women dream of themselves being dreamt of. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at. -John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Jill Soloway, the creator of the TV series Transparent and the forthcoming I Love Dick (based on the Chris Kraus novel of the same title about having a crush on cultural critic and author Dick Hebdige which some of you might have read in previous classes; the pilot for the series, as is Amazon policy is available to preview, btw). This is a talk she gave on 'The Female Gaze' at the Toronto Film Festival.
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