Study Task 1 - Triangulation exercise

Triangulation exercise 

How to Triangulate? 



Visual and other pleasure 

• Primary document 
• Collection of analytical essays 
• Male Gaze Theory 
• Objectification of women
• Traditional roles of women
• Heterosexual roles within films
• The male controls film fantasy 

Stars and Audience 

• Bias - own experiences
• Criticism of Laura Mulveys work 
• Explores ways in which males are objectified 
• Analysis of Picnic and the sexualisation of  males within it.
• Star Profiles 

Culture Theory and Popular Culture 

• Secondary summary 
• In reference to two texts 
• Mass desire vs castration 
• Psychosocial theorists-freud
• Gaining pleasure from the sexualization of women 
• Un-biased summary of original text. 

Triangulation: A critical analysis surrounding the sexualization of women 

Primary information is mostly gained from mulveys work with dyer developing commentary upon her findings, this is then processed further as storey then comments upon the two texts, using both primary and secondary information.

Each articles focus on the ways in which gender is depicted within the film. Mulverys focus on feminist issues within the sexualization of women through film, and argues how the male gaze on positions for women to be objects in which males can sexualise. Storey then gives an overview of Mulvey's findings developing another summary, which is focusing on the ways in which the media consume texts. Dyer then debates the validity if Mulvey's theory. He suggests what both women and males,heterosexual or not,may be the consumer. He also suggests that males are also widely sexualised within films and contain their own gender roles. 

The text highlights primary most effectively in Mulvey's work as she herself is discussing her own opinion. Although both Storey and Dyer effectively reference Mulvey, with Dyer using her quotations to back his own valid points. 

Dyer uses Mulvey's quotes in order to criticize her work by comparing it to t the critical findings of other writers. An example of this being "Laura's use of Freidian thinking leads her to conclude that the male gaze products a voyeuristic pleasure. Studler argues that the fetnaisation of the female body has the potential of producing the alternative measure of mosochistic between male moviegeer and female star." He then later discusses on the formulate that this occurs due to an individuals relationship with their mother. A factor in which is not explained in Mulvey's work although theorists Freud has pre-determind this within his work, a contrary factor as Mulvey has previously looked greatly into his work.