Iluminace 2011, 23(2):53-67
Temptations of Pleasure: Nickelodeons, Amusement Parks, and the Sights of Female Sexuality
The translation of Lauren Rabinovitz's text challenges the approach to media history presented in the previous article. Here, an archaeological approach is intertwined with the practices of the new film history, and together they reveal the image of women that is born with modernity and how it transcends into the representational practice of technical images. The text traces the instituting of budget cinemas and theme parks as cultural spaces, how these spaces aroused spectators' desires, how they helped to present the female body as spectacle, and what meaning they assigned to women. The study focuses on the period 1900-1915 in the United States.
Keywords: film science and research, film theory, evolution of media, film aesthetics, history of film performance, film history, silent era, women and film, women in film, the body in film, sexuality and film, spectator voyeurism
Published: June 1, 2011 Show citation
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