"Professor of archeology, expert on the occult, and... how does one say it? Obtainer of rare antiquities..."

So in my Contemporary Art Theory & Criticism seminar, we've been talking about the concept of the male gaze, an idea that was first written about in feminist film criticism. The notion of the gaze is important for my research, and so learning more about the origins of the theory was obviously of great interest to me.

We watched part of "Rear Window," which is cited in Laura Mulvey's famous article, in class, but since we didn't get to finish it, I requested it through BGSU's interlibrary loan.

One of my fellow students brought up a scene from Jane Campion's film "The Piano," so when I saw that at the library, I grabbed it.

However, also on the shelf at the library was "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark." Now, when I was last in Venice, someone had mentioned an Indiana Jones movie that took place there, making me want to see it again--the 10 or so intervening years since my last viewing had made things a bit hazy. It turns out that this was not that movie; Venice features in "The Last Crusade" (also now on interlibrary loan...).

I hardly missed Venice, however. I had completely forgotten how well Harrison Ford could act (I think the most recent movie of his I saw was the one with that awful Russian accent; I don't even think I finished it) and what a complete studmuffin he was (TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO!). Extremely gaze-able.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions about whether you think he looks like anyone else...