What Happens on Screen Reflects Socioeconomic Values

What happens on screen can be easily understood as reflecting certain society values. But one of the points that she makes that's really interesting is how the act of viewing the screen, and she describes how when we sit in the cinema. We sit kind of isolated in the dark. You're kind of alone peering into the lives of people on the screen. Now this speaks to what she calls scopophelia, drawing from psychoanalytic theory, which is a desire to look. This desire is augmented when it is the act of looking into somebody's private life because you are being stream lined into something that you aren't supposed to be. And this speaks too, a desire to