Monday, 16 December 2013

Male Gaze - Laura Mulvey (1975)

The concept of the male gaze is one that deals with how an audience views the people presented.
This theory can be thought of in three ways:
  • How men look at women
  • How women look at themselves
  • How women look at other women
She believes that audiences have to view people from the perspective of a heterosexual male. Women are objects. The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identification with the male.
This relates to my work in that the male in my video is dominant and has control over the female. The female wears clothes that a male may want to see her in. The female sees the male with another girl and feels threatened because she doesn’t feel as though there is any comparison with her and the girl, the girl is superior. 

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