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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Main Author: Selen Gokcem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Pittsburgh 2012-04-01
Series:CINEJ Cinema Journal
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Online Access:http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/46
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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
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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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