Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man
Classic gaze theory that was underlined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 which claims the male gaze objectifies woman and turns the woman into a sex object, is lack in the explaining gaze from man to man. In Tom Ford’s A Single Man the gaze is used from man to man different from man to woman and it is not pe...
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description | Classic gaze theory that was underlined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 which claims the male gaze objectifies woman and turns the woman into a sex object, is lack in the explaining gaze from man to man. In Tom Ford’s A Single Man the gaze is used from man to man different from man to woman and it is not perceived as something negative. By providing a queer gaze analysis, this article will show how homosexual people live their intimate feelings by gaze and how gay gaze can be different from the classic gaze in a way that it does not reduces the other one in an interior position. |
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spelling | doaj.art-9a6af4a85ff7431aa9abdf14ac9e04832022-12-21T23:07:43ZengUniversity of PittsburghCINEJ Cinema Journal2159-24112158-87242012-04-0112869110.5195/cinej.2012.4638Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single ManSelen Gokcem0"Kadir Has University"Classic gaze theory that was underlined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 which claims the male gaze objectifies woman and turns the woman into a sex object, is lack in the explaining gaze from man to man. In Tom Ford’s A Single Man the gaze is used from man to man different from man to woman and it is not perceived as something negative. By providing a queer gaze analysis, this article will show how homosexual people live their intimate feelings by gaze and how gay gaze can be different from the classic gaze in a way that it does not reduces the other one in an interior position.http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/46Film, Cinema, Gaze, Homosexuality |
spellingShingle | Selen Gokcem Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man CINEJ Cinema Journal Film, Cinema, Gaze, Homosexuality |
title | Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man |
title_full | Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man |
title_fullStr | Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man |
title_full_unstemmed | Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man |
title_short | Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man |
title_sort | transperance me i want to be visible gay gaze in tom ford s film a single man |
topic | Film, Cinema, Gaze, Homosexuality |
url | http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/46 |
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