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The Rise of Patriarchy in Alfred Hitchcock 's Rear Window and Vertigo : In the Feminist Perspective

Laura Mulvey is known for her feminist criticisms of films and movies and Alfred Hitchcock is known for making films that have paved the way to feminist film theory . Among these films that Hitchcock directed that called the attention of feminist theorists would be Rear Window and Vertigo which will be further discussed . In Mulvey 's essay entitled Visual Pleasure and Narrative in Cinema , she contends that Hitchcock 's

br films portray women in classic Hollywood cinema as passive objects of male voyeurism and sadism . In this sense , women are represented as objects whose main role is to fulfill the desires and express the anxieties of men in the audience (The Sexual Subject : Screen Reader in Sexuality

The essay incorporates psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud as a method to reveal that the audience 's fascination in films are rooted on pre-existing patterns of fascination ' that has already been established by the individual himself and the social norms . These social norms pertain to sexual differences among men and women that controls the way they are represented in images and films . According to Mulvey (1999 , the film making in the past and of the present have always worked in such a way that the unconscious favors the representations in films that are structured in the patriarchal perspective

The cinema is considered as an advanced representation dictated by dominant of the society is somehow...