Film Theory Isn't a Mirror

Lacanian: Film theory has wrongly conceived the film screen as a mirror. But Lacan actually conceives the mirror as a screen, right? And I think in a way, that's the whole argument of the chapter, right? We don't see, when we're looking at the screen, we don't see ourselves manifested there. The camera isn't this panoptic gaze that sees us, right? Instead, it's,. there's a screen which is shielding, she argues, the gaze, right? Like that's the, that in a ways, the screen is a screen covering the, the gaze in the sense that she means it.