Playing with the Gaze in Hitchcock. The Experience of Visual Pleasure in Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho : 9783656675242 : 27 Jun 2014 : Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: Woman [...] stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer, not maker, of meaning (Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure" 15). Ever since Laura Mulvey published her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" in 1975, feminist film theorists have challenged her assertion that films are directed at an exclusively male spectatorship. Despite the fact that Mulvey herself has revised some of her ideas in "Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946)" (