So hello again the distance between my posts is getting to be embarrassing to myself as is there titles and content…  anyway for my dissertation for my degree (possibly a needless explanation there but well carry on) i have decided to look at how batman and the jokers relationship has changed in their 70 years of existence.  i want to see if there has been a change in the way they interact and what that means for us as a society or simply put how changes in our society are reflected in the comics, films, cartoons and video games of the batman universe.  so this is my task for the summer any information from the internetoverse at large or any thoughts are as always very very welcome.

anyway here is another of my lackluster rhymes.

This one is called Man In My Fridge.

The man in my fridge is stealing my milk,

he’s a thief and a crook I don’t care for his ilk.

His tiny little hands steal hunks of my cheese,

How does he break in with such ease?

His tiny shoes leave prints in my butter,

When I go to make toast with rage I do splutter.

“Curse you, you tiny thieving man,

If I met you in town id run you down with a van.”

The tiny man left me a tiny note,

In poorly used English he called me a goat.

If I thought it would help id mover from my house,

But he’d just track me down with his trained homing mouse.

To my fate with this man I a resigned,

I’ve rigged my house with explosives ones which are timed.

I actually kinda like this one.

 so here is the first of the nursery rhymes Ive been writing i have a fuck of a lot of these.  i hope you don’t think there terrible i think this one is sort of terrible. but i still like it i think its kinda sweet. my bro said he’d illustrate these so maybe i can see something cool come from these…

Zombie in the pantry.

There’s a zombie in the pantry

What is he going to eat.

Has he seen the beans that I threw at his feet?

He wants to eat my brains .

But I want to feed him beans.

I hope he understands what my hand gesture means.

He’s banging on the door.

I hope the latch will hold.

I thought a zombie would be fun but actually the…..

listen up tumblrites i am going to start posting my bad nursery rhymes here and maybe some illustrations to go with them if i can be arsed  or my brother can be arsed to do them for me or i can figure out how to actually post text and images together, or if i remember, or if my work load doesn’t get to much for me …Christ there’s a lot against this actually happening  well just have to see how i feel. 

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the graduate lots of lingering looks at Mrs Robinson

hello  folks of tumblr getting close to finishing this film theory blog thing so soon ill just start blogging about any old stuff and nonsense.  today id like to write a short but sweet post on the male gaze oh yes.  

the male gaze was an idea brought up in laura mulveys essay “visual pleasure and narrative cinema” in 1975. in this essay mulvey argued that classic Hollywood cinema usually put the spectator in a masculine position with the woman on screen purely being and object of desire. mulvey suggested there were two main types of the male gaze during the classic Hollywood era the voyeuristic essentially seeing women as whores and the fetishistic seeing women as maddonas (i.e saintly).

a film that i think clearly demonstrates the above ideas, is the graduate starring a young Dustin hoffman and according to  imdb is the tale of  ”Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock, who is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine”  

in this film (i have no idea why the font has changed this way) the protagonist is a male and so how we see the women in this film is from  his masculine viewpoint. and you can see this from how its shot. we have the famous lingering scene of mrs Robinson’s stockinged leg trying to seduce Benjamin into bed with her.  this puts the audience in the voyeuristic position over Mrs Robinson  which is in contrast to how we see her daughter Elaine who if her mother is portrayed as a whore from our voyeuristic viewpoint then she is definitely our maddona.

ultimately the problem with the male gaze in cinema is it robs us of a different perspective we only see things from a mans point of view. even when the films main protaganist is a women we still only see it from a male point of view because the entire edifice of hollywood cinema was created by men  and so that is the convention that women on screen are portrayed in a certain way.

having read about the male gaze id be interested to see some films with a more feminine perspective to see how they differ or even just to see if the difference is noticeable. so anyway this was my short but sweet post as i promised may post some screen shots from the graduate later today after that i think ill do a bit of a summing up post and then itll be no more film blog but maybe more normal blog. bye for now 

could this be a postmodern way to deliver a lecture i think it is 

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