Round 5: Tossup 8

Martin Arnold’s video Pièce touchée (“pee-ESS too-SHAY”) inspired this theorist to create a video “remixing” a 30-second sequence of Marilyn Monroe singing “A Little Girl from Little Rock” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In a film constructed around slow 360-degree pans showing the life of a woman named Louise, this theorist speaks to the camera about Oedipus and the Sphinx. (15[1]-5[1])This (15[1])filmmaking partner of Peter Wollen discussed (15[1])Josef von Sternberg’s joke about preferring his films be projected upside-down in a work first published by the French department at the University of Wisconsin. bell (-5[1])(*) hooks argued that because Black women exist outside a fundamental duality, they embody the “oppositional” form of a concept that this theorist (10[1])developed (-5[1])in an essay critiquing Marnie’s “to-be-looked-at-ness” and the “scopophilia” (10[1])of Vertigo. (10[2])For 10 points, name this theorist whose essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” examines the cinematic male gaze. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

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