The Male Gaze
Laura Mulvey coined the term 'Male Gaze' in 1975. She believes that the film audiences have to view characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male. During shots of a female the camera lingers on the curves of the woman's body, showing it in different proportions and angles. Also the camera shows events that occur to women and are presented largely in the context of the males reaction to these events. The female bodies are being viewed as objects and sexualised in their view.
The Male gaze is a term from a film theory. It is used to describe when the audience is put into the perspective of a (heterosexual) man. Female characters are sexualized, and the camera may zero in on female body parts considered sexual. The Male gaze is also a feminist theory in which displays the unbalanced differences between males and females. It reveals how men observe women, how women observe women and how women observe themselves.
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