The Male Gaze.

In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an article with the title 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. In this article she wrote about something she called 'The Male Gaze' which is basically the way in which a film is shot from the point of view of a (heterosexual) man, for (heterosexual) men. An example of this is when films have sex scenes where a women's body is seen more than a male's, this is because a film is shot in the male gaze. I would include the lovely comic strip of a dinosaur that I have seen a few others post, but I shall try and take the part of the dinosaur and explain it as best as I can...


The male gaze basically consists of a scene being shot from the point of a hetrosexual male for a heterosexual male. If a woman's body is being shown more than a males they are objectifying her and her body. The whole point of this is to attract a male audience and the idea is that it will be appealing to the heterosexual male audience. 


The male gaze. TA DA!