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. This filmmaking partner of Peter Wollen discussed 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 (*) hooks argued that because Black women exist outside a fundamental duality, they embody the “oppositional” form (10[1])of a concept that this theorist (10[1])developed in an essay critiquing Marnie’s “to-be-looked-at-ness” (10[1])and the “scopophilia” of Vertigo. For 10 points, name this theorist whose essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” examines the cinematic male gaze. ■END■

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