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Laura Mulvey notes that man is reluctant to gaze at his exhibitionist like. “Hence the split between spectacle and narrative supports the man’s role as the active one advancing the story, making things happen/’ she explains. “The man controls the film fantasy and also emerges as the representative of power in the a further sense” (20). Roderick A. Ferguson suggests “as it kept silent about sexuality and gender, historical material- ism, along with liberal ideology, took normative sexuality as the emblem of order, nature and universality, making that which deviated from hete- reopatriarchal ideals the sign of disorder” (6).
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Martin, M. (2014). The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed by the Male Gaze. In: Padva, G., Buchweitz, N. (eds) Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363640_5
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