GRGR(5) Katje: take one

[Justin Ginnetti]

Well,
Let's keep the other threads going but keep on moving.  Taking it from 
the top, the camera tracking of Katje suggests Laura Mulvey's critique of 
cinema in her 1975 essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."  TRP 
anticipates Mulvey of course, but there are a number of striking 
similarities.  Firstly, the perspective adopts that of the camera (or at 
least incorporates that of the camera/cameraman); this recalls Mulvey's 
notion of male voyeurism inherent in film, a voyeurism which relies on 
the enfetishization of the female body ("the camera follows as she moves 
deliberately nowhere longlegged about the rooms, an adolsecent wideness 
and hunching to the shoulders. . ." (92.23-25)).  At the same time this 
position is disrupted by a) the acknowledgement of the camera (by 
mentioning the camera the narrator is most likely not the camera or 
cameraman) and b) Katje herself.  Katje--and this might be an appropriate 
time to begin a full-fledged discussion of her--is obvioulsy much more 
than the object of the male gaze.  In this scene alone she seems more 
like a male "flaneur" than a feminine sex object.  Anyhow, just a start. 
. .

Ever onward,
Justin