http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/it-happened-one-night Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:19:46 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:19:46 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/933/man-as-image-clark-gable-james-dean-and-the-audience-that-looked-at-them By Anna J. Varadi - In her seminal essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey (1975) connects psychoanalytic concepts of scopophilic desire1 and Jaques Lacan's theory of the Mirror Stage2 (1966), to the cinema spectator's gaze. Mulvey limits her argument to the "active/male" gaze looking at a "passive/female" figure (p. 11), however, several critics note that "her remarks [can] apply … to images of men" (Neale, 1983, p. 4; Hansen, 1986; Koch, 1985). Following this line of thought, I use Mulvey's  ideas, particularly her linking of the Mirror Stage with processes of identification, to discuss... Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:47 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/933/man-as-image-clark-gable-james-dean-and-the-audience-that-looked-at-them