ABSTRACT
Nowadays more and more people, especially those who live in large cities, suffer from a terrible emptiness and boredom, as if they are waiting for something that never arrives. It may be said that viewing film is today a fundamentally different experience to that of the past where the point of access was either in a cinema theatre or a television broadcast. psychoanalytic film theory during the 1970s in articulating the filmgoer's experience of the film was therefore largely contingent on the context of the cinema theatre. The film always has to actively work at "arresting" its gaze, whereas the DVD pause is a physical interruption in the flow of the material. Meaning in cinema is volatile, and is engaged through several layers, or 'frames of perspective', problematics that impinge on options of interpretation in several ways. For Laura Mulvey, cinema is indifferent to the presence of its audience, producing for them a separation and play on voyeuristic phantasy.
