the introduction of the term “the male gaze” can be traced back to Laura Mulvey and her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” which was published in 1975. In it, Mulvey states that in film women are typically the objects, rather than the possessors, of gaze because the control ...
According to Mulvey, the language of film was made by male film maker for audiences. Female gaze isn't really a thing. Because even if a female filmmaker tries to invert the idea of male gaze by fetishizing male bodies, it still uses the same language and techniques that male filmmakers ...
Although sometimes described as the "male gaze", Mulvey's concept is more accurately described as a heterosexual, masculine gaze. Visual media that respond to masculine voyeurism tends to sexualise women for a male viewer. As Mulvey wrote, women are characterised by their "to-be-looked-at-nes...
What is the male gaze Laura Mulvey? The Male Gaze theory, in a nutshell, is where women in the media are viewed from the eyes of a heterosexual man, and that these women are represented as passive objects of male desire. ... The Male Gaze suggests that thefemale viewer must experience ...