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scopophilia

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scopophilia
Psychiatry.
1. Also called passive scopophilia. the deriving of sexual pleasure from viewing nude bodies, sexual acts, or erotic photographs; voyeurism.
2. Also called active scopophilia, scoptophilia. an abnormal desire to be seen, especially genitally; exhibitionism. — scopophiliac, n. — scopophilic, adj.
See also: Sex


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The interest in scopophilia that marks Greetings--its riffs on Blow Up, its fascination with the perspectival grassy knoll vantage point of the JFK assassination, the Zapruder film--becomes an obsession in Hi, Mom
While the stark black backdrop provides a visual echo for the significance of Riggs's race and suggests the danger of dark skin vanishing into the darkness of nonexistence, the revelation of the filmmaker's naked body turns the notion of visual scopophilia on its head.
It is in the department store, and in the possibilities afforded by consumer wanderings, that modernism embraces the assertion of female scopophilia and women's presence in the public sphere in modernism.
 
 
 
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