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12 mar 2023 · Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze originates from her 1975 article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. Mulvey has written many books subsequently which engage with the Male Gaze, most notably 2019’s Afterimages: On Women, Cinema and Changing Times.
2 ago 2021 · Laura Mulvey, in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, explored how mainstream films appealed to a “male-gaze” because the industry was dominated by men who, inevitably, constructed representations of women from a masculine point of view.
- The Male Gaze Theory
- Examples of The Male Gaze in Film: Transformers
- Disney Princesses
- The Effect on Cinema
The Male Gaze theory, in a nutshell, is where women in the media are viewed from the eyes of a heterosexual man, and that these women are represented as passive objects of male desire. Audiences are forced to view women from the point of view of a heterosexual male, even if they are heterosexual women or homosexual men. From the feminist perspectiv...
One film which stands out when considering this theory is Michael Bay‘s Transformers franchise. Firstly, these movies have a huge difference in the male/female character ratio, instantly making it an unrepresentative movie as it doesn’t depict 50% of its audience. All the womenBay casts in this franchise are sexualised in some way, and it has no re...
Whilst the Male Gaze can be applied to many obvious films such as Transformers, there are some films that people might not even consider as sexist and misogynistic, such as the movies that feature everyone’s beloved Disney princesses:Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderellaet cetera. Firstly, the design of the princesses is partia...
Overall, it is clear that Mulvey‘s theory can be applied to a vast amount of films, for example Spring Breakers (2012), the Lara Croft movies (2001-2003), The Avengers (2012) and some less obvious movies, such as Aladdin and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937). Not only do we see this outdated portrayal of women in movies, but also in advertiseme...
14 lug 2023 · The Invention of “the Male Gaze” In 1973, the film theorist Laura Mulvey used concepts from psychoanalysis to forge a feminist polemic and a lasting shorthand for gender dynamics onscreen. By...
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5 gen 2016 · A key idea of feminist film theory, the concept of the male gaze was introduced by scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey in her now famous 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
13 apr 2017 · One, women cannot be subjects; they cannot own the gaze (read: there is no such thing as a female spectator). Two, men cannot be objects; they cannot be gazed at, they can only look, and only at women (read: there is no such thing as a male spectacle).
The psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan are the foundations from which Mulvey developed the theory of the male gaze and interpreted and explained scopophilia, the "primordial wish for pleasurable looking" that is satisfied by the cinematic experience.
