(…) two contradictory aspects of the pleasurable structures of looking in the conventional cinematic situation. The first, scopophillic, arises from pleasure in using another person as an object of sexual stimulation through sight. The second, developed, through narcissism and the constitution of the ego, comes from identification with the image seen (Mulvey, 1975: 3).

Habitus is essentially the way in which the culture of a particular social group is embodied (internalised) in the individual, during the socialisation process beginning in early childhood. Habitus is, "society written into the body, into the biological individual" (Bourdieu, 1990: 63).