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Scopophilia In Casablanca

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In the same stream of argumentation, in her article entitled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey mentions that: “The cinema offers a number of possible pleasures. One is scopophilia. There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure .” In this regard, women’s naked bodies in Hub Fi Dar El Beida are prevalent through a multiplicity of scenes and pictures of nudity which constitutes a central picture of the whole movie. Mulvey’s use of scopophilia is applicable to Hub Fi Dar El Beida/ Love Affair in Casablanca, in that, the body is widely displayed as an object to attract the male gaze. Salwa’s body was exposed in the beach, in her bedroom, in the bedroom with Adbdeljalil and also with Najib.

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