The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Film Read “The Oppositional Gaze” for homework (see below) the day before class. It’s fairly long and challenging. Watch the 19-minute video. This material explores the way what Sartre calls “the gaze” operates in films and how the perspective of the camera and of the implied audience affect the … The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Flim
In 2007 an independent film came out entitled “My Kid Could Paint That.” It followed the art career of a four year old, Marla Olmstead, living in Binghamton, NY, who took the art world by storm. Many of her canvases sold for five figures and presented beautiful and engaging abstract images. The film began as … Can anyone make art?
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