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Gaze. In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard ), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. The concept and the social applications of the gaze have been defined and explained by existentialist and ...
The Gaze [1] (Turkish title Mahrem) is a novel written by Turkish writer Elif Şafak. It was first published in Turkey in 1999. [2] The novel won the Turkish Authors' Association 2000 prize for "best novel". [3] An English translation was published in 2006 by Marion Boyars Publishers.
Male-gaze theory also proposes that the male gaze is a psychological "safety valve for homoerotic tensions" among heterosexual men; in genre cinema, the psychological projection of homosexual attraction is sublimated onto the women characters of the story, to distract the spectator of the film story from noticing that homoeroticism is innate to ...
The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such both genders can create films with a female gaze. It is a response to feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey 's term ...
The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km 2 (141 sq mi). [27] [28] With around 2 million Palestinians [29] on approximately 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) of land, Gaza has one of the world's highest population densities.
Braco was born Josip Grbavac in Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia on 23 November 1967. [1] [5] He earned a degree in economics in Croatia, married and started a family. He began practicing "healing" after the 1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence. [6] Braco's mentor was Ivica Prokić, a Serbian economist, whom he met in the autumn of 1993. [5]
Fixation or visual fixation is the maintaining of the gaze on a single location. An animal can exhibit visual fixation if it possess a fovea in the anatomy of their eye. The fovea is typically located at the center of the retina and is the point of clearest vision. The species in which fixational eye movement has been verified thus far include ...
The Gaze of Orpheus. In ancient Greek religion, The Gaze of Orpheus is derived from the antiquarian Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the story of Orpheus, the poet descends to the underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice from premature death, only on Hades’ and Persephone's condition that he does not look at her during the process.