... touch on the oedipal trajectory, especially relating to Peeping Tom. I will also mention sadism and discuss this throughout Peeping Tom. I will also explore and discuss the phallic metaphors and sexual innuendos contained within both of the films. The first film I would like to discuss is Peeping Tom. This has the most obvious cases of deviance. It contains many 'deviant' subjects; the main one being voyeuristic sadism, however there is also the fetishisation of the female object. As well as the deviance of flirtatious exhibitionalist women. The majority of Peeping Tom surrounds the deviant notion of "Scopophilia - Literally the desire to see" (Hayward, 2000: 318) and voyeurism, with the addition of sadism "domination through narrative subjugation, in which the woman is investigated and either punished or saved " (Burgoyne, R. and Flitterman - Lewis, S. and Stam, R, 1992: 175) and also fetishism "overvaluation, in which the ...

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