多文化视角TheTrumanShow精读.ppt

in order to analyze it more thoroughly from multiple cultural perspectives, I mapped out this structure for my paper, and now let’s go into details of my discoveries from each of these perspectives. * I named the first subtitle/perspective after a dialogue between Truman and Christof When Truman asked…. And from this, we are easy to relate it to Lacan’s mirror stage theory and thus figure out that, … * However we should remember, Besides this small “others, there are also Big “others” In this film, as Lacan noted, it is the big social context, …. One thing worth noting here is what you see from this picture. This is Truman’s first appearance in the film….. this scene reminds us ..he has no real self-identification * My second perspecitve is from Foucault’s panopticon theory As we can see from the picture, the director is able to monitar Truman’s life through this small hole in the sky. Thus Truman is like an object, being trapped in this panopticon disigned by .. But we should remember, not only the director is watching at/controlling … we audience….for our preferences will guide or sway the directors’ shooting. This verifies what ..argues,“it does not matter who exercises power”—“Any individual, taken almost at random, can operate the machine”in the power system. * Another thing merits our awareness is that * From my point of view, this explains why… We are happy to see that * From a third perspective, I analyzed the power of gazes in this film based on Mulvey’s Gaze theory. However, while Mulvey only recognizes three kinds of gazes: the camera gaze, the audience gaze and the character gaze. I find there are four gazes in this film. * Now let’s see how these gazes lead us to identify with them Firstly, through one of the character’s gazes, the truman’s realization gaze, * * * The TV camera’s gaze looks like this. Do You see the dark circle around it. * What I want to emphasize is this new layer of gaze that I found, it looks like this. I have m