Word: voyeur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task seems, except for the most insatiable voyeur, grim: analyzing nearly every Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler ever published--660 anatomically repetitive issues. Even so, the cost seems high: $734,371, or more than $1,100 per issue. And the announced goal is fuzzy: "To lay the foundation for future studies on the possible influence, or lack of influence, of erotica/ pornography, with particular emphasis on issues of child exploitation." The Justice Department has retained Judith Reisman, a communications consultant, to head a staff of 19 researchers on the project. A broader study, involving more magazines, was started more than...
...might recall my postulation that the film's popularity is partly due to its having been out of circulation for nearly 30 years after its release in 1954, and partly due to the ease with which the audience sympathizes with Jimmy Stewart's character. As a photojournalist (i.e., professional voyeur) confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he starts to realize how much he enjoys being a spectator--and if we didn't, then what would we be doing at the movies, gaping at Grace Kelly as Stewart's girlfriend...
...conversation while avoiding its customary banality. A fine tactical maneuvering, an interplay of voices prevents the interview from slipping into the atrophy of an artificially into the atrophy of an artificially sustained monologue it moves it advances, it retreats. The finest moments leave the reader, the eavesdropper, the innocent voyeur, with a mingled sense of horror and satisfaction at the audacity with which Barthes engages in verbal fencing: (from Le Nouvel Observateur...
Where there is an exhibitionist there must also be a voyeur; in Hitchcock's world they make a perfect sadomasochistic pair. In Rear Window it is a salesman-killer (Raymond Burr) and a photographer with a broken leg (Stewart) who ives across the courtyard. This roving lensman may be immobile for the moment, but he knows how to extract meaning from pictures-and there is something wrong with this one. He turns amateur detective and puts his "leg man" (Kelly) at risk digging holes in a mysterious garden, clambering into second-story windows, even confronting Mr. Bad. Early...
...planned to recall them by 1965. Even more disturbing, however, are the intensely personal moments Manchester forces us to share, such as Kennedy's reaction to the death of his infant son Patrick. These seem like intrusions on sacred ground, and leave one with the embarrassment of an unwilling voyeur...