A Critical Review of Gaylyn Studlar’s Work: ‘Masochism and The Perverse Pleasures of The Cinema (1985)’

Arif Rohman

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Charles Sturt University

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Rohman, Arif. (2014). A Critical Review of Gaylyn Studlar’s Work: ‘Masochism and The Perverse Pleasures of The Cinema (1985)’. Kompasiana, 24 November 2014.

The domination of psychoanalysis in criticism of women in Hollywood traditional movies appeared when Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay ‘visual pleasure and narrative cinema’ in 1975. However, after dominating for a long time, pros and cons about her work have appeared.

Gaylyn Studlar in ‘Masochism and the perverse pleasures of the cinema’ tries to encounter the ‘male gaze’ theory using Peircean semiotic and psychoanalysis. She believes that Mulvey’s concepts of ‘castration anxiety’ and ‘voyeuristic sadistic’...

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