However, I think the reson the long looks from the women are in the source is that they're pleas (for the audience to jumpin and save them?) or they're to communicate "I'm afraid." Stoicsm and the strength to take the pain don't require to be communicated like fear does.
I think it's interesting though that there's more possibility of communication for one sex but less for the other. Either way, whether for help or to communicate fear, the women are giving power to the viewer (who is presumed to be male). With the men, the lack of communication frees the male viewer to identify with someone else in those scenes. He doesn't have to directly confront a male (often the hero) in a position of vulnerability if he doesn't want to.
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Date: 2010-09-04 05:19 pm (UTC)women are in the source is that they're pleas (for the audience to jumpin
and save them?) or they're to communicate "I'm afraid." Stoicsm and the
strength to take the pain don't require to be communicated like fear
does.
I think it's interesting though that there's more possibility of communication for one sex but less for the other. Either way, whether for help or to communicate fear, the women are giving power to the viewer (who is presumed to be male). With the men, the lack of communication frees the male viewer to identify with someone else in those scenes. He doesn't have to directly confront a male (often the hero) in a position of vulnerability if he doesn't want to.