THE VISION MACHINE: GENDER AND IMAGING STUDIES

Abstract

In the cinema, arbitrary and symbolic relationships that have been culturally established in relation to women are promoted. These relationships place women, at the same time, as the object and foundation of representation, the end and origin of man's desire and his impulse to represent it, and the object and sign of (his) culture and creativity. In turn, it works as an image creation machine, which by producing these images (of women or not) also tends to reproduce the woman as an icon. And in this process of subjectivation it is defined in relation to a male subject; with man as the only term of reference.