Mulvey and Dyer questions

Working from Laura Mulvey's arguments about the ways in which mainstream classic hollywood cinema supposes and aims to please a male audience --
how do we think women might experience the representations of woman as object/threat, when they view these male oriented films?
how would a male viewer who doesn't identify as heterosexual fit into the dynamic Mulvey presents?
another way of posing these issues: Do we see those viewers who don't fit within the realm of the proposed ideal spectator as being subsumed under the power of the looking relations in these films, or are there perhaps alternative ways of viewing that have emerged from audience members whose identities are situated outside of the cinematic understanding of relations between subject and object?

How does Dyer's article, "Stereotyping" attempt to shift the terms of debate about the cultural problems that stereotypes present? What does he suggest criticism should focus on, rather than stereotyping as a problem of accuracy/truth?
As Michelle noted, another of this week's essays considers some questions of otherness- How does stereotyping, as Dyer understands it, relate to cultural processes of representing otherness?
Dyer suggests that hegemony (our new favorite vocabulary word) plays a role in the process of stereotyping. How do we see stereotyping playing out hegemonic interests, i.e. what kinds of social effects does this kind of representation seem to have?
In contrast, how might we see the role of hegemony within the cinematic dynamics that Mulvey spells out?