The Real Gaze

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... theory to try to explain what I'm trying to get at here with a cross comparison between these two sequences is, uh, Todd McGowan's The Real Gaze is this kind of psychoanalytically informed reading of, of cinema spectatorship.

We don't have to get into the psychoanalysis, but one of the key kind of insights he says that I think is so true is that cinema's gaze can do one of two things.

It can either show us not enough, or it can show us too much.