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What is Feminist Theory

Studies on Cinematography and Narrative in Film: Sequels, Serials, and Trilogies
Theory that analyzes the linguistic, discursive, and ideological characteristics of the structure that produces inequality between the sexes.
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Castrating the Phallus and Male Gaze in The Silence of the Lambs & Hannibal
İlknur Gürses Köse (Ege University, Turkey) and Işıl Tombul (Independent Researcher, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1958-1.ch009
Abstract
The phallus took its place at the basis of the representations of power in social law with the transition from nature to culture/civilization. For this reason, Lacan, unlike Freud, searches for the phallus in culture, language, and gaze rather than in the body. Likewise, starting from psychoanalysis, Mulvey developed the theory of male gaze by analyzing gaze in cinema with feminist terminology. The Silence of The Lambs (1991) and its sequel Hannibal (2001) are films that allow for a Lacanian phallus and a Mulveyian male gaze reading. In films, the female hero struggles with the phallus and male gaze in a culture surrounded by masculine codes. She succeeds in castrating the phallus and cutting the male gaze that hinders her. Lacanian and Mulveyian psychoanalytic analysis was conducted on the films in the context of feminist film criticism.
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