laura mulvey quote -' no matter what your gender or sexuality is, everyone reads media texts from a males perspective .
- In many films, the male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the perspective of a heterosexual male. a scene may focus on the curves of a woman's body, putting you in the viewer of a male.
- Although it is only the male gaze theory if these curves are highlighted with specific conventions such as slow motion, deliberate camera movements and cut aways.
- Mulveys theory suggest that the male gaze denies women human identity, instead identifying them as 'objects' to be admired for physical attributes.
although it is often the case that the presence of a woman in the mainstream film texts is rather vital. often a females character lacks importance in itself in some movies , however it is how she makes the male feel or act that is seen as most important by most movie directors.
mulvey argues that there are two main functions of a female character in a narrative :
- The first being as an erotic object for characters within the narrative to view.
- Then the second being an erotic object that spectators within the cinema to view.
this same male gaze is also represented in music videos of today:
e.g rihanna - diamonds
in this particular video there are close up images of rihanna in a black and white edit singing along with the song . however the camera is clearly fixed at an angle where its just above her chest therefore not exactly showing any sort of nudity but almost implying it to be there.
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