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gaze3 CONSTRUCTSThe clinical gazeFOUCAULT · 1963The male gazeMULVEY · 1975Gaze followingSCAIFE & BRUNER · 1975

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Philosophy & history of medicine

a trained, institutional way of looking that constitutes the object it sees, binding perception to knowledge and power.

For Foucault the gaze is not a glance but a trained, institutional way of looking that constitutes the very object it sees. In The Birth of the Clinic the medical gaze reorganises the sick body into a visible, classifiable field, binding perception to knowledge and power. The referent is a structured regime of observation, not the direction of anyone's eyes.[1]

Unit
A trained, institutional way of seeing that constitutes and classifies its object
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied by analysing how medical and institutional practices organise what counts as visible and knowable

Film theory

The look built into cinema that positions viewer and viewed

In feminist film theory the gaze is the structured look that cinema's camera, editing, and narration build into the viewing situation, classically positioning the spectator as male and the on-screen woman as an object of visual pleasure. It is a relation of looking and power inscribed in the apparatus, a different construct from an institutional regime of perception or the literal aiming of the eyes.[2]

Unit
The structured look through which film positions spectator and spectacle
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Read through how framing, point-of-view, and editing align the spectator's look with a character's or the camera's

Developmental psychology

Following where another is looking

In developmental psychology gaze is the literal direction of the eyes and the early-emerging capacity to detect and follow it. Scaife and Bruner showed that infants turn to look where an adult looks, an ability that underpins joint visual attention and later social cognition. The referent is observable eye orientation and its following, not a theory of power or a cinematic apparatus.[3]

Unit
The direction of eye orientation and whether an observer follows it
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Coded from infants' head and eye turns toward an adult's line of regard in controlled looking tasks

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References

  1. Foucault, M. (1994). The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception (A. M. Sheridan Smith, Trans.). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1963) ISBN 9780679753346
  2. Mulvey, L. (1975). Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. Screen, 16(3), 6–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/16.3.6
  3. Scaife, M., & Bruner, J. S. (1975). The capacity for joint visual attention in the infant. Nature, 253(5489), 265–266. https://doi.org/10.1038/253265a0

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