Laura Mullvey The Male Gaze

The development of visual media has introduced the concept of The Male Gaze Theory. The Male Gaze Theory is defined as how women are depicted in the media from a male perspective, such as presenting women as sexual objects for men’s pleasure (Loreck). The article, inexplicitly, talks about the male gaze: “Up to 81% of music videos contain sexual imagery, the majority of which sexually objectifies women by presenting them in revealing clothing, as decorative sexual objects, dancing sexually, or in ways that emphasize body parts or sexual readiness.” The article talks about how women are sexually presented in the media which is what the male gaze encompasses the “male gaze” is a harmful contribution to the sexualization of girls and is also seen throughout the music video. The beginning of the music video shows 50 Cent walking into a brothel-type mansion where the camera pans to focusing on the writhing, half-naked women in the foyer of the mansion. This scene is viewed from a male’s perspective because the camera focuses on their sensual movements and physical assets instead of their normal facial expressions or more appropriate places on their body. Also, since 50 Cent is the only male in the mansion, the camera is only coming from a male perspective because brothels are only truly for a male’s pleasure. The other women in the video are objectified from their revealing clothing

The Pearl Harbor incident is an instant in history that changed our world views and also our standing in the world. During this time World War II was at its peak and the United States was going through a horrendous plunge in the stock market which threw us into the Great depression. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor is an event that will haunt our nation for the rest of history and is unforgettable due to what the nation went through after that incident. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, otherwise known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States and also the representative of the nation during this treacherous time. When the nation was broken and needed a little light of hope due to the horrible circumstances that they were put

In this particular text, Osman asks her audience to reflect on their everyday gaze and how it aligns with their actions. Throughout a majority of the text,

The gaze deals with how the audience views the people presented in visual culture, in this case, adverts, magazines and Cinema. The ‘male gaze’ is the male ability to exercise control over women by representing them in visual means as passive, sexual objects of male desire. The power of men over women has always existed. They are seen as the more powerful and clever species. This control over women has been seen predominately in linguistics senses in past times. It is clear that there are more derogatory terms for women than there are for men. Men can also wolf whistle or cat-call in order to harass a woman but

“The male gaze,” is a powerful tool used in Hollywood films. This gaze is the way the camera or character, mainly the males, objectifies and gazes their eyes toward women in a sexualized way. It’s the difference between looking, and being looked at. Two dynamics are commonly seen which are, women as a spectacle, and the spectator position produced by filmmakers. This is shown in Clueless, a movie about a rich girl and her growing mindset on the world, where she starts by taking a new girl under her wing, making this girl like them, rich, and pretty looking.

When one hears the terms “violence” and “horror,” one typically imagines horrible crimes and serial killers; rarely would one think of everyday suburban life. However, this is the exact landscape of violence depicted in Charles Burns’ Black Hole. In Black Hole Burns draws attention to the implicit assumptions about “normal” and “other” made in everyday life by exposing the objectification of women and through the male gaze. The male gaze is a phrase used in film and gender studies to describe the lens through which audiences view popular culture from a heterosexual male perspective. According to Laura Mulvey, the film theorist who coined the term, the male gaze is so ubiquitous that it often goes unrecognized and is considered the norm.

The Male Gaze is a concept coined by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (Mulvey, 1975) ,It depicts the way that visual media is tailored to a heterosexual male perspective in that the world is shown specifically for a male viewer and man is often the dominant character through male gaze while woman are portrayed as passive. Lora

In 1674, Nat Bacon arrived in Virginia from England and he also received a council seat at the same time. Because offices had changed of navigation acts that tobacco prices steep fell in price, and the reason that the grain crop failed and increased taxes, the vast population of farmers and small plantations in Virginia faced bankruptcy. Meanwhile, Berkeley, who was the viceroy of Virginia, became arbitrary and peremptory that the rules of the vote were also very rigor. By 1676, tensions of people in Virginia reached the peak and broke out. The immediate cause of Bacon rebellion the Indian attack on the frontier villages in order to recapture the land that had been lost. Bacon asked Berkeley to punish the Indians but he was refused. In the

Since the very first book ever made to now books have been passed on through multiple generations. Books contain knowledge that humans depend on. 1940 May 6th the Book of Fire occured. That day so many facts, emotions, events, and a variety of forms of knowledge were lost in a fire. The quotation “where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” to me means that when all of those books were burned so many generations of humans learning from those stories were lost that you may aswell burn human beings themselves. Liesel Meminger was so attached to the grave diggers handbook. She was determined to read it and understand every single part

“The Codes of Gender” is a documentary by Sut Jhally. He looks at how today’s culture creates and support gender roles for our society through mass media. The documentary analyze how men and women are taught to conform to look and behave a certain way to meet society expectations of what is ideal to being a male or female. Sut Jhally uses references points from Erving Goffman’s book titled Gender Advertisements, about how advertisements broadcast women in the most bizarre positions; These advertisements display women in awkward and unnatural poses, making them appear submissive, unbalanced, childish, delicate and vulnerable. These attributes are shown through their positions; tilting their head, bent knees, touching themselves, and looking out in the distance. Whereas positions for men are opposite; they appear alert, dominant, confidence and powerful. This can be

Film provides audiences with specific constructions of male, and female, which draw on the prior assumptions and associations the viewer holds about gender. Various female tropes reoccur in films, such as the ‘spinster’, the promiscuous woman, the housewife, and the virgin. These stereotypes reinforce pre-existing societal norms and ideas that can often be harmful and undermine the complexity of women. Traditionally, these tropes occur as a result of a lack of development of female characters and the frequent depiction of women through the lens of the ‘male gaze’. This results in more passive female characters who, it appears are simply there to be “looked at and displayed”

The male gaze was introduced by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and is “a feature of gender power asymmetry in film”. Mulvey explained, “Women were objectified in film because heterosexual men were in control of the camera”. The male gaze is when the audience views the scene of object –in this case the woman- from the prospective of a man. This may occur if the camera lingers over a woman’s curves for a while displaying her as an erotic object rather than a human being, making her a victim of sexualisation. The woman is usually unaware of this gaze, which brings patriarchy to the situation. Her essay also explains that the ‘female gaze’ is similar except it is like women looking at themselves through a male’s eyes. This can have a negative effect on real life women because they are being told what they should look like in order to be noticed by men and what men want to see. Feminists

Theorist, E. Ann Kaplan in her work, “Is the Gaze Male?”, analyses the portrayal of women in film using Laura Mulvey’s “Gaze’ theory and psychoanalysis. In addition, Kaplan states that historically, females have been the central focus on only the melodrama genre, and while melodrama exposes the constraints and limitations that the family places on women, at the same time, gets women to accept those constraints as inevitable and normal. Kaplan argues that our culture is deeply rooted in “masculine” and “feminine, and dominance-submission patterns. In the end, she concludes that the exclusion from male culture provides an avenue to affect change in film and society. I partially agree with Kaplan that some women take pleasure from being the object of the male gaze as I think that is not entirely true, and specifically, this generalization does not apply to lesbians.

Media portrays femininity on a daily, in our lives. Femininity are the qualities that traditionally associate with females. In movies femininity are strongly showed. People of all ages are exposed to the expectations of femininity which affects our views on female. In the media such as movies like “Cinderella” the portrayal reinforces gender stereotypes to their audience.

The film industry has created the conventional gender roles of society into their movies. A majority of films have supported some of the male and female stereotypes. In the history of the film industry, the role of men is primarily that of the stereotypical working class man or hero, while the roles of women are primarily portrayed as being somewhat inferior to men. In the 1930s through the 1970s, men held the leading roles in films while women played smaller roles. In terms of jobs, women were given mostly family roles and rarely were shown outside of their homes, while men had successful careers and did many activities outside of home. “Women were shown doing housework and men were the beneficiaries of their work” (“Women’s roles in the