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Male Gaze

Weilu Deng(Tiffany)

Introduction:

Male Gaze

The theory of male gaze was first coined by Laura Mulvey in 1973 (Wikipedia).

Introduction

  • A British feminist film theorist

  • Her journal 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', was written in 1973 and published on British film theory journal 'Screen' in 1975 (Wikipedia).

  • Her research brought the word 'Male Gaze' into the public eye and gave media scholars a new way to study in film industry.

Laura Mulvey

https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/stanley-picker-lectures-laura-mulvey

What is male gaze:

Explanation

In movies, female characters are presented as sexual object from male heterosexual perspectives, which denies women's human identity. Male audiences get pleasure by gazing at female character's physical appearance in cinema (Wikipedia).

Scopophilia

&

Narcissism

  • Male scopophilia can be satisfied by watching sexualized women from visual media (Loreck, 2016).

  • Narcissism is stimulated in this process, men imagine themselves as the powerful male characters in the movies to possess female (Hodkinson, 2017)

http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/ARTH_220/looking.htm

Directors

Three

perspectives

Male

Gaze

Characters

Audiences

Statistics

  • It indicates a relationship of power that the gazer is superior but the "object" is always in an inferior position.

  • It causes the women are restrained because of their appearance and wearing by men

  • The reinforces of patriarchy and male dominance invisibly (Mulvey, 1975)

Effects upon society

Examples in films

in movies

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

1

Transformers Franchise (2004)

2

Conclusion:

Conclusion

  • Male gaze means woman is objectified by male to satisfy their sexual desire in films

  • Hollywood movies are still inundated with male gaze from the 20th century to nowadays

  • Male gaze can be reflected now in society

  • The male gaze causes the distorted figures of women in media industry around the world.

Reference list:

reference

  • Bay, M (dir) 2007, Transformers, videorecording, Dreamworks Pictures, American

  • Frankel, D (dir) 2006, The Devil Wears Prada, Fox 2000 Pictures, America

  • Garnett, WT (dir) 1946, The Postman Always Rings Twice, videorecording, PCA, American

  • Hodkinson, P, 2017, Media culture and society, 2nd edn, e-book, British Library, UK, viewed 30 March 2020

  • Loreck, J 2016, ‘Explainer: what does the ‘male gaze’ mean, and what about a female gaze?’, viewed 1 April 2020, https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-does-the-male-gaze-mean-and-what-about-a-female-gaze-52486

  • Mulvey, L, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, vol. 16, no. 3, Pages 6–18.

  • The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media 2014, viewed 3 April 2020, https://seejane.org/

  • Wikipedia, male gaze, viewed 1 April 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze
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