Week 4:  Spectators, Gazes, Audiences

February 16

Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2005) (introduction)         Endnotes to reading

A reminder to send a “media journal” to me by 9am on Monday. This can be a record of a day (or longer). 


7pm screening:
Sans Soleil (France: Chris Marker, 1983)


February 18

Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen (1975)

Stuart Hall, “Encoding/Decoding” (1980) 

bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze,” in Black Looks: Race and Representation (1993)



**Paper due Friday, February 20 at 12pm. Please email to lauranelson@princeton.edu. 

Paper no. 1 prompt


Videos from class:

Julie Dash, dir. Illusions (1982)



You can watch the whole film through Princeton Kanopy.


Maryam Tafakory, dir., نظربازی Nazarbazi (2022), excerpt