media theory of the mlaes gaze

1. LAURA MULVEY
THE MALE’S GAZE

2. HOW THE AUDIENCE VIEWS THE PEOPLE
PRESNTED
• How men view women
• How women look at themselves
• How women view men
• How women view other women
Women are usually place in media texts for the males gaze.

4. LAURA MULVEY
• She came up with the term ‘male gaze’ in 1975
• Audiences have to view the characters in a film from the point of
a heterosexual male
• There are certain features used to view the women from the
male gaze

5. FEATURES
• Camera lingers of some shots of the
women
• Women are also seen as the damsel
in distress in many film (such as
action adventure genre). Men will
usually try and be the saviour
• Events that happen to women are
centred around the men’s reactions
• Women are usually seen as objects

6. MY VIDEO