Some Epistemological Remarks on Contemporary Films: Focusing on 'Visual Pleasure'

Abstract

In this article, first of all, what I want to insight is what is 'visual pleasure'. Visual pleasure, as a term of psychoanalysis, is one of the strategies that work primarily in Hollywood movies. Therefore, I think that this concept can be divided into the first pleasure to make a visual image object and second, the pleasure to discover the perfect image of oneself. The first visual pleasure is also known as Scopophilia. Scopophilia refers to the act of looking in sexuality. The key is that it is a type of looking without revealing itself. The second visual pleasure is narcissism. As you well know, it is the pleasure of discovering your idealized ego. It is a panopticon that Scopophilia works at the national level. It can be seen that Scopophilia is ultimately an important operating principle of 'Surveillance'. Narcissism is a pleasure to discover the idealized self. In particular, this is related to the attitude of spectators viewing national antagonistic sports games. Therefore, conceptualizing these two things can be called 'Objectfication of others' and 'Idealization of oneself'. From this article, I'm willing to compare the visual pleasure of 3 Korea Directors films with the early Hollywood Films. The Objectification of others always structures 'the looking subject' and 'the visible object'. In the patriarchal society, the subject is structured as a man, the visible object is a woman, and this structure is transformed into a very strong power-structure. At this time, the image of the visible object becomes an element of Spectacle.