Oppositional Gaze

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In the film “Just Go With It”, the depiction of the male, female, and the oppositional gaze point of view is demonstrated through several scenes. The male gaze is depicted through Danny, who is a successful surgeon. Katherine who is the surgeons assistant, depicts the female gaze. The oppositional gaze is depicted throughout the story in several scenes.
The male gaze is depicted through the male protagonist by presenting him to be a rich and successful man that can get any woman he desires. According to the Male Gaze essay, by Shohini Chaudhuri, “woman plays a ‘traditional exhibitionistic role’—her body is held up as a passive erotic object for the gaze of male spectators, so that they can project their fantasies on to her” (The Male Gaze, Page 106). An example shown in the film is when Danny is determined to heal his broken heart by sleeping with beautiful woman and lying to them about being married. He then falls for a physically attractive.They present her attractiveness by showing the actress in a bathing suit as she gets out of the …show more content…

There is only one scene that presents a person of color and she is portrayed as a single African-American mother with a disobedient kid. I noticed not much had changed when watching this film, in ‘The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorship’, the author speaks on how women of color are devalued in media, she states, ”When most black people in the United States first had the opportunity to look at film and television, they did so fully aware that the mass media was a system of knowledge and power reproducing and maintaining white supremacy.” I believe it would have been best if the colored actor and the Palmer, would have switched roles, that way it would not have presented a stereotype. Presenting the film in this way would have made it more inspiring for women of color because they too, would have felt more of a connection with the main

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