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Laura Walker. Lipstick. 2010. Student Work
Critical Studies: In this assignment students were asked to repackage an object or artwork in order to critique the institution/s that framed them.
Lipstick, Laura Walker, 2010
Institutions: Beauty Industry and Cinema.
Lipstick is a commodity made popular by early screenstars. Film theorist Laura Mulvey discusses the way women in mainstream cinema are portrayed as the objects of desire for an audience that is assumed to be masculine, this is called ‘the male gaze’. These two concepts are combined to produce a lipstick that makes the product’s purpose overt.
Laura Walker. Lipstick. 2010. Student Work
Critical Studies: In this assignment students were asked to repackage an object or artwork in order to critique the institution/s that framed them.
Lipstick, Laura Walker, 2010
Institutions: Beauty Industry and Cinema.
Lipstick is a commodity made popular by early screenstars. Film theorist Laura Mulvey discusses the way women in mainstream cinema are portrayed as the objects of desire for an audience that is assumed to be masculine, this is called ‘the male gaze’. These two concepts are combined to produce a lipstick that makes the product’s purpose overt.