Marlene Dietrich Madonna and the Male Gaze

Marlene Dietrich, Madonna, and the Male Gaze in Blonde Venus and Desperately Seeking for Susan As audiences, we subconsciously identify the male protagonists and take female as spectacle during the film watching, due to the social function of narrative films. (Turner 72)1 Thus feminists have been slashing the objection of female body in ¡§male gaze¡¨ in the narrative films over the decades. Male gaze is in term of the fetishistic scopophilia and sadistic voyeurism. Fetishistic scopophilia …

…for males and females. They all deserve some applause for their attempts to try. Cited Works 1,2,5,7,8,9,10 Turner,Grame. Film As Social Practice. London and New York: Routledge,1988 3 Kaplan, E.Ann. Women in Film Noir. London : BFI Pub.,1998 4 Pam, Cook and Philip Dodd ed. Women and Films Philadelphia : Temple University Press 6 Cathy, Schwichtenberg ed. The Madonna Connection: representational politics, subcultural identities, and social theory St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993 Bibliography Venus tells the world through her words.