The male gaze is a concept which was thought up by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey. It refers to the way visuals in film are structured for the eye of a masculine viewer. It describes the tendency in visual culture to see the world and women from the eye of a male, for example in film women are often used as sexual objects for the scopophilia of male viewers.
For example in the film Spring Breakers the 4 girls who star in the film are dressed provocatively throughout the course of the film. There is no purpose for the girl to be naked throughout the film other than the fact it is for the visual pleasure of the male audience. The audience of the film is forced to view the film from the eyes of a heterosexual male, as Laura Mulvey points out in her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".
Below is a video that simply explains the whole concept of Laura Mulberry's theory of the male gaze.
For example in the film Spring Breakers the 4 girls who star in the film are dressed provocatively throughout the course of the film. There is no purpose for the girl to be naked throughout the film other than the fact it is for the visual pleasure of the male audience. The audience of the film is forced to view the film from the eyes of a heterosexual male, as Laura Mulvey points out in her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".
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