What is the "male gaze?"
- The male gaze is a view in which movies, advertisements, TV shows, and so on are created and designed with the thought of having a male audience. This means that images are geared toward male viewing pleasure through the use of camera techniques (slow motion, camera angles), which make women a spectacle to be looked at.
- Basically, women's bodies are designed and presented as objects of desire.
- Men, as a part of the male dominated culture, is elevated to take on active roles in films, while women take the more passive objects of gaze.
Example #1: Sleeping Beauty
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Example #2: Princess Jasmine
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To learn more about the male gaze read:
- Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Amelia Jones. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2010. 57-65.
Works Cited:
Berger, John. “Ways of Seeing.” The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Amelia Jones. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2010. 49-52.
Berger, John. “Ways of Seeing.” The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Amelia Jones. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2010. 49-52.