Digital Identification in Dottie Gets Spanked (1993)

"By drawing pictures, dreaming of [Dottie], and sitting glued to the television after school, Steven participates in Mulvey’s understanding of cinematic identification. His idealization of Dottie, which manifests as desire, reinforces Lacan and Mulvey’s complementary beliefs that identification, at least through an experience like the mirror stage, is never a particularly whole process–otherwise determining the subject one identifies with as detached from the original spectator."