The Male Gaze, developed by feminist, Laura Mulvey, describes how the audience, or viewer, is put into the perspective of a heterosexual male. Mulvey believes that women should enjoy the attention of attracting the gaze, and put themselves in positions to be looked a. The concept of 'the gaze' is one that deals with how an audience views the people/person presented. Mulvey states that in film women are typically the objects, rather than the possessors, of the gaze because the control of the camera (the gaze) comes from factors such as the assumption of heterosexual men as the default target audience for most film genres.
The Male Gaze typically focuses on;
- Emphasising curves of the female body
- Referring to women as objects rather than people
- The display of women is how men think they should be perceived
- Female viewer, view the content though the eyes of a male
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