The male gaze What it is: In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts and in literature, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure...
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The male gaze What it is: In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts and in literature, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer. Women are looked at and displayed and sometimes have no or not much importance in the plot. For feminists it can be thought of in 3 ways: How men look at women How women look at themselves How women look at other women Who created it: The term “male gaze” was first coined in 1975 by Laura Mulvey in her essay “Visual Pleasure”. How it is used in films: In narrative cinema, the male gaze usually displays the female character (woman, girl, and child) on two levels of eroticism: (i) as an erotic object of desire for the characters in the filmed story; and (ii) as an erotic object of desire for the male viewer (spectator) of the filmed story. Example: the panoramic view of Megan Foxes body in the movie “Transforme
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