A Review on Laura Mulvey

I found this reading to be quite interesting as it goes into cinema, and how a film can have a large impact in ones sexuality and identity. For me it was quite heavy reading, mainly because I had to look words like phallocentrism and scopophilic. From my understanding, its about how women throughout the years in cinema, have been seen as eye candy in a way, and that becomes overly sexualized or at least have to be seen as beautiful to attract male audience for attraction and for women an idea of how they should look in a way. The reading was quite challenging to understand so I'm going off the topics that I think are being brought up, and I just hope I am not ranting. However the film she talks about; the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window, about a man whilst he is bored spies on the people that lives across from him, I watched the beginning of the film and immediately, you have a half naked woman whose bra falls off, already within the first two minutes of the film, they have over sexualized a woman through the sake of appealing an audience, specifically an audience of men.

Subculture, is a group of people who differentiate from the parent culture, e.g. Punk, Skinheads etc. When a group of people act or wear something in a certain that wouldn't be seen as normal into their society they grew up in. 

Black Sabbath- Left, Slipknot- Right

Chris Kael- Guitarist for Five Finger Death Punch (top) Motley Crue (bottom)

I have looked at Metal Bands from different Eras, With bands like Motley Crue and Black Sabbath, they would bring round men wearing eyeliner, lipstick and provocative clothing like women's leggings, fish net stockings and of course the colour black being a main feature in what they wear. Now, tattoos on the arms are becoming more of a popular cultural idea now than it did when band from 80s and 90s. Other pieces of clothing that are becoming more modern are ripped jeans, alongside painted nails, which are seen to be more feminine, however it is becoming more normal for people who listen to this kind of music.