Screening Prompt: Gossip Girl & Mad Men (Season 1 Episode 6/Babylon)

Consider the episodes screened in class in relation to any of the following topics:

(You can just stick to one, or combine two if you see interconnections)

  • The Male Gaze
  • The Female Gaze
  • To-Be-Looked-At-ness
  • Female (as) spectacle
  • Male (as) spectacle
  • Female spectacle as power vs. the threat of the unseen female
  • The gaze as power vs. the look as desire
  • The woman’s look (at the male monster) as recognition of affinity with the monster
  • The possibilities of more fluid identification, or identification with characters who do not align with the viewer’s gender, race, or sexuality (i.e. Ask yourself: who do you identify with as you view? Does your identification line up along lines of gender, race, or sexuality?)

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