Voyeurism towards Women in Film: Rear Window
In the contemporary society cinema offer images that are geared towards male viewing pleasure, this is within set psychoanalytic paradigm like the voyeurism and scopophilia. Arguably, the concept of gaze is basically about the relationship of images and pleasure. In psychoanalysis, scopophilia is defined as pleasure derived in looking while exhibitionism is the pleasure of being evaluated. Manlove (88) notes that these two terms acknowledges the manner in which reciprocal relationships of viewing can derive pleasure. As such, Voyeurism can be referred to as looking while one is not being seen; it carries an exceptionally negative undertone of a powerful ...
