Screening Prompt Week 2: It and Mad Men


1) What ideological discourses of masculinity and femininity do we see at work in these two screenings?

2) How would Adorno et al envision the impact of It and/or Mad Men on the audience? How would Fiske imagine potential audience experience of either or both of these screenings?

3) How would we read these two screenings? from a Mulvey-ian viewpoint? Can we see the male gaze at work in It? In Mad Men? Do either or both in any way complicate Mulvey’s argument?

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