From Male Gaze to Female Seduction and Its Cinematography in Malaysian Horror Film Dukun
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This paper mainly intends to examine the female seduction embedded in Malaysian film Dukun, and further explores the construction of female subjectivity articulated in this cinematic text, in comparison with the representation of vulnerability and precariousness of male characters in modern Malay society. Interestingly, the empowerment of female sexuality is initiated from the conventional male gaze towards female; while this film Dukun, though with ambiguity, I argue is attempting to make a reversal of male gaze towards female. Female seduction seems to disable male gaze. And this film has given way for feminine to play out its charm for identifications of female audiences who are being situated in the position of the other as to men in a mainly patriarchal society. Nevertheless, the female power presented through black magic ambivalently undermines itself in a way to reinforce the patriarchal order in modern society. Besides, the mise en scène and visual metaphors will be analyzed and encoded in representing characters’ psychological status as well as the dominant power one over the other in relation to its thematic concerns.
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This paper mainly intends to examine the female seduction embedded in Malaysian film Dukun, and further explores the construction of female subjectivity articulated in this cinematic text, in comparison with the representation of vulnerability and precariousness of male characters in modern Malay society. Interestingly, the empowerment of female sexuality is initiated from the conventional male gaze towards female; while this film Dukun, though with ambiguity, I argue is attempting to make a reversal of male gaze towards female. Female seduction seems to disable male gaze. And this film has given way for feminine to play out its charm for identifications of female audiences who are being situated in the position of the other as to men in a mainly patriarchal society. Nevertheless, the female power presented through black magic ambivalently undermines itself in a way to reinforce the patriarchal order in modern society. Besides, the mise en scène and visual metaphors will be analyzed and encoded in representing characters’ psychological status as well as the dominant power one over the other in relation to its thematic concerns.
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