1. Does "the male spectator’s gaze fetishises the image of the glamorised woman on screen" mean "the woman has a glamorous identity on the screen, and the male spectator's gaze fetishises this glamorous image"?
2. Does "subjecting her to control and mastery" mean "bringing women under the control of men"?
Context:
Laura Mulvey explored fetishism in terms of sexual difference in her classic 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, which, although many of the essay’s tenets have been superseded, still continues to form the backbone of educational curricula on fetishism, film and femininity. Taking her cue from Freud, Mulvey analysed how the male spectator’s gaze fetishises the image of the glamorised woman on screen, subjecting her to control and mastery. As long as she stays in her place as a static, beautiful, contemplative object, his identity is guaranteed. However, as the fetish object is unstable, the woman simultaneously evokes the very threat of castration that the subjection of her image to a fetish is meant to allay. As constructed by fetishistic voyeurism, her image oscillates between static beauty and its disintegration.
catttt 1. Does "the male spectator’s gaze fetishises the image of the glamorised woman on screen" mean "the woman has a glamorous identity on the screen, and the male spectator's gaze fetishises this glamorous image"? Yes.
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catttt1. Does "the male spectator’s gaze fetishises the image of the glamorised woman on screen" mean "the woman has a glamorous identity on the screen, and the male spectator's gaze fetishises this glamorous image"?
Yes.
catttt2. Does "subjecting her to control and mastery" mean "bringing women under the control of men"?