Gazing at the Witches. From Women on the Verge of a Breakdown to Reclaiming the Eco-Witch on the 1960s and 1970s
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Gazing at witches is a dangerous thing, as Medusa's myth reminds us: didn't the mere sight of the snake-haired Gorgon turn men into stone? Don't witches have hurtful eyes, bewitching people and animals with their malevolent glances? Weren't they carried into courts backwards, so as not to cast spells on wary judges with their cunning eyes? There is power in looking, as witchcraft, psychoanalysis and critical theory all argue, and looking is (or can be) a power exercise, as the onlooker turns the subject into the object of his look. Nowhere is this more evident than in film, where the gaze is always at stake. Feminist theory in particular turned "the gaze"-the "male gaze", "the female gaze", the "oppositional gaze", the "#girlgaze", etc.-into a key concept, a ground of contestation, a means of resistance.
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Art et histoire de l'art
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