Scopophilia

In the reading “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema “ by Laura Mulveys. She  talks about  many of the issues women have encounter  in cinema over the years.  Mulveys brings up the subject that women are objects of visual/sexual pleasure.  She specifically talks about the concept of scopophilia, which means the pleasure in using another person as an object of sexual stimulation through sight.  Women have to methods on screen and they are seen as erotic objects. When I think of the theories of mulvey and her concept of scopohilia I start to think about every scary moving I have ever seen. There is always that one “hot” who gets killed in the most erotic way.  I also start to think about scopohilia and how we all are in a way looking woman and sometimes men in films. Sometime not even recognizing it, the way some of these films are made, draw an erotic attention. The way the camera is position an shots are taken they kind of make us all become scopophilia and without even recognizing it we use the other person as a subject of sexual stimulation.