The tone of this video is very light and a bit like a bad yahoo update about last night's episode of The Bachelor. It does a great job, however, of explaining Subject/Object relationships in the context of the female image. The explanation can be expanded to anyone represented in images that they do not control. For example, in this image we looked at last week, there are no female figures, yet it is considered to be an objectification of Middle Eastern peoples. In fact it is part of a category of paintings known as Orientalist, which were popular in Europe in the 18th century because people were so fascinated by exotic peoples and locations. People who were "other" than European were mainly described by the way they were "different".
The Middle East, by the way, is in south west Asia.
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