Saturday, 23 October 2010

Male Gaze

The male gaze usually portrays a man 'having a look'.
Woman normally Passive.


  • Gaze three area's
  • how men look at women 
  • how women look at there selves
  • how woman look at other woman
film audiences have to view character from the perspective of a heterosexual male.
The male gaze doesn't take into account the reverse of the male gaze.
A woman's reaction would also be presented by a male action.

It relegates women to the status of objects, the female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily by identification with males.

In this lesson we were also instructed to watch a music video from the band 'Scouting for girls'


This was a test to see if we paid attention to the colors of certain objects instead of looking at other things in the video.
some theorists also have noted that sexualising of  the female body even in situations where female sexiness has nothing to do with the product being advertised is a way of grabbing people's attention and interests.

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