Notes on 'The Gaze'

        Daniel Chandler

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        June 1998

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        • Chandler, Daniel (1998): 'Notes on "The Gaze"' [WWW document] URL http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze.html [Date of Visit]

        Contents

        • Contents Page
        • Introduction
        • Forms of gaze
        • Direction of gaze
        • Angle of view
        • Apparent proximity
        • The eye of the camera
        • The social codes of looking
        • John Berger's Ways of Seeing
        • Laura Mulvey on film spectatorship
        • Related issues
        • Categorizing facial expressions
        • References and supplementary reading