Laura Mulvey and Hammer Horror Trait research.
Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey was a British feminist film theorist. Laura believed in a film technique called ‘The male gaze’ this is defined as ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’. The concepts of the gaze is how one deals with how the audience see how the characters are presented on screen. In Laura’s case this is thought of in three different ways
- How men look at women
- How women look at theirselves
- How women look at other women.
Another way to put this theory is that the audience is put in a male perspective therefore using camera shots such as low angles and slowly travelling up the womans body, this puts you in a males point of view as you are seeing the women as a more sexualised item.
Laura Mulvey says that all audiences should and must view all characters from a heterosexual male perspective.
Hammer Horror
Hammer Horror is a British film production company that was mainly famous for producing a series of gothic horror films such as Dracula. After being so successful from releasing Sci-fi, thrillers, film noir and comedies, hammer horror made a huge success in the horror film market – big enough to allow them partnership with Warner brothers. Hammer Horror productions was founded in 1934 but made these huge successes from the mid 1950s up to the1970s.
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