THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CINEMATIC PLEASURE: ON THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN MULVEY'S THEORY AND IMDB STATISTICS

Mehmet Köprü

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CINEMATIC PLEASURE: ON THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN MULVEY'S THEORY AND IMDB STATISTICS

Yazarlar:

Mehmet Köprü

Yayıncı:

Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi:

International Journal of Communication and Media Research Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.69-80

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001324415

pISSN:

2757-7414

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 Movies offer their audiences certain pleasures. These may be related to the films narrative or visual style. In the article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema written by film theorist Laura Mulvey, scopophilia comes to the fore as the main pleasure element of her cinema. According to this text, written from a feminist perspective and with a Freudian approach, the subject of the gaze in narrative cinema is masculine while the object is feminine. The pleasure offered by popular movies is largely built on these patriarchal sexist foundations. Although Mulvey has built her thesis on solid foundations by drawing on psychoanalysis and adopting a political stance, she reduces the pleasures offered by cinema to the symbolic meanings that phallocentric culture attributes to the female image. Therefore, other cinematic pleasures are overshadowed. The fact that some films that rank high in terms of popular audience tastes today make almost no scopophilic promises is an indication that other cinematic pleasures may take precedence. In this study, through the contextual evaluation of the first five films of the IMDb Top 250 list, which reflects popular audience tastes, it will be argued that, at least for todays moviegoers, scopophilic expectations have taken a back seat.

 Movies offer their audiences certain pleasures. These may be related to the films narrative or visual style. In the article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema written by film theorist Laura Mulvey, scopophilia comes to the fore as the main pleasure element of her cinema. According to this text, written from a feminist perspective and with a Freudian approach, the subject of the gaze in narrative cinema is masculine while the object is feminine. The pleasure offered by popular movies is largely built on these patriarchal sexist foundations. Although Mulvey has built her thesis on solid foundations by drawing on psychoanalysis and adopting a political stance, she reduces the pleasures offered by cinema to the symbolic meanings that phallocentric culture attributes to the female image. Therefore, other cinematic pleasures are overshadowed. The fact that some films that rank high in terms of popular audience tastes today make almost no scopophilic promises is an indication that other cinematic pleasures may take precedence. In this study, through the contextual evaluation of the first five films of the IMDb Top 250 list, which reflects popular audience tastes, it will be argued that, at least for todays moviegoers, scopophilic expectations have taken a back seat.

 Movies offer their audiences certain pleasures. These may be related to the films narrative or visual style. In the article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema written by film theorist Laura Mulvey, scopophilia comes to the fore as the main pleasure element of her cinema. According to this text, written from a feminist perspective and with a Freudian approach, the subject of the gaze in narrative cinema is masculine while the object is feminine. The pleasure offered by popular movies is largely built on these patriarchal sexist foundations. Although Mulvey has built her thesis on solid foundations by drawing on psychoanalysis and adopting a political stance, she reduces the pleasures offered by cinema to the symbolic meanings that phallocentric culture attributes to the female image. Therefore, other cinematic pleasures are overshadowed. The fact that some films that rank high in terms of popular audience tastes today make almost no scopophilic promises is an indication that other cinematic pleasures may take precedence. In this study, through the contextual evaluation of the first five films of the IMDb Top 250 list, which reflects popular audience tastes, it will be argued that, at least for todays moviegoers, scopophilic expectations have taken a back seat.

 Filmler izleyicilerine bazı hazlar sunar. Bunlar filmin anlatısıyla ya da görsel stiliyle ilgili olabilir. Film teorisyeni Laura Mulvey tarafından kaleme alınan Görsel Haz ve Anlatı Sineması makalesinde ise sinemasının temel haz unsuru olarak skopofili gözetlemecilik ön plana çıkar. Feminist perspektiften ve Freudcu bir yaklaşımla yazılmış olan bu metne göre, anlatı sinemasında bakışın öznesi erilken nesnesi dişildir. Popüler filmlerin sunduğu haz da büyük oranda bu ataerkil cinsiyetçi temeller üzerinde kurulmuştur. Mulvey tezini psikanalizden beslenerek ve politik bir tavır takınarak sağlam temeller üzerine inşa etmiş olsa da sinemanın sunduğu hazları fallosantrik kültürün kadın imgesine yüklediği simgesel anlamlara indirger. Bu nedenle de diğer sinematik hazların gölgede kalmasına neden olur. Günümüz popüler izleyici beğenileri açısından üst sıralarda olan bazı filmlerin neredeyse hiç skopofilik vaatte bulunmaması, başka sinematik hazların daha öncelikli olabileceğinin göstergesidir. İşte bu çalışmada, popüler izleyici beğenilerini yansıtan IMDb Top 250 listesinin ilk beş filminin içeriksel değerlendirmesi üzerinden, en azından günümüz film izleyicisi için skopofilik beklentilerin oldukça geri planda kaldığı tezi savunulacaktır.

Makale detayları

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CINEMATIC PLEASURE: ON THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN MULVEY'S THEORY AND IMDB STATISTICS

Yazarlar:

Mehmet Köprü

Yayıncı:

Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi:

International Journal of Communication and Media Research Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.69-80

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001324415

pISSN:

2757-7414

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Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Mehmet Köprü

Yayıncı: Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar: İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi: International Journal of Communication and Media Research Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.69-80

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2024

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001324415

pISSN: 2757-7414

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Mehmet Köprü

Yayıncı:

Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Dergi:

International Journal of Communication and Media Research Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.69-80

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2024

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001324415

pISSN:

2757-7414