{"id":169362,"date":"2021-07-06T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=169362"},"modified":"2024-03-22T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:46:24","slug":"the-male-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=169362","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I continue to trip over examples in film of men looking at themselves in the mirror. I get so excited! I wrote a whole lengthy essay about it for Oscilloscope Laboratories<\/a> – and people who have been reading me for years will remember the initial post about this – where I basically said “I am fascinated by these scenes and how they erupted into prominence in the 1970s where every major actor had a scene where he looked at himself in the mirror and I really should write about this one day.” Well, I finally did! Mission accomplished! It only took me 15 years. <\/p>\n

Here are two separate shots from The Apartment<\/i> where first Fred MacMurray looks at his reflection in a broken mirror, and then Jack Lemmon – in a crucial moment – looks in the same mirror. It’s a very upsetting moment. I love how Billy Wilder basically used the same exact shot – same framing, same distance from the camera, same angle – to highlight what is REALLY going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continue to trip over examples in film of men looking at themselves in the mirror. I get so excited! I wrote a whole lengthy essay about it for Oscilloscope Laboratories – and people who have been reading me for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,24,4],"tags":[310,465,342,2646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190972,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169362\/revisions\/190972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}