Complete the account of the gaze and the landscape.
Clark distinguished the naked from the ______, a distinction Berger turned into a question about who is ______. Mulvey developed the parallel argument for ______. The eighteenth-century category describing land as fit to be made into a picture is the ______.
Word bank: nude · looking · cinema · picturesque · sublime · painting
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- The second blank is the question Berger substituted for Clark's.
- The third blank is the medium Mulvey wrote about.
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Clark distinguished the naked from the nude, a distinction Berger turned into a question about who is looking. Mulvey developed the parallel argument for cinema. The eighteenth-century category describing land as fit to be made into a picture is the picturesque.
The third blank is the one most often got wrong in essays. Mulvey's essay is about narrative cinema and its mechanisms are cinematic — camera position, editing, the structure of looking over time — so applying it to painting requires an argument rather than a citation.
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