2. Laura Mulvey’s
An essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative cinema’ was written by
Laura Milvey.
Laura Mulvey inverted the term ‘male gaze’ in 1975. She believes
the male gaze occurs when the audience have to ‘view’
characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male.
3. The Male Gaze
A shot can focus on a woman's curves, making her the view in
the eyes of males.
However the curves need to be highlighted with specific
conventions for it to be the male gaze theory.This can be
through slow motion and deliberate camera movements.
4. Snoop Dogg – Beautiful ft. Pharrell
Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FE194VN6c4
At first listening to the song without the music video it sounded like a beautiful
love song for their special girl. In my imagination I thought of pharrell
serenading his favorite girl.
However the music flips the whole concept I had in my head and what the
lyrics portray as a message of love to a special girl.
5. Snoop Dogg – Beautiful ft. Pharrell
Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FE194VN6c4
The music video really doesn’t reflect the lyric.The video actually conforms
with Mulvey’s theory . On the other hand, the genre plays a significant role in
the representation of gender, especially the genre feature in this music video
(R&B).Woman are usually used to drew more attention, especially for men. It’s
quite conventional for woman in R&B music videos to be dressed in
provocative clothes and dance in a provocative way.
6. Jennifer Lopez – I LuhYa Papi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oiEhf9M04
Jennifer Lopez has tried with this music video to combat and contradict
conventions of how woman are shown in music videos.
Most music videos woman are objective and ‘shown off’ for the male gaze, but
she has reversed this to males being flaunted on camera for the female gaze.
7. Jennifer Lopez – I LuhYa Papi
The narrative of the music video is not coherent with the lyrics of the song, but to
an extent the message of the music video is done successfully. She successfully
portrayed men as women are usually shown in music videos: sexualized and
objective. However her, herself contradicts the message she wants to get out as
she still is in a reveling outfit and flaunting herself off. But she does show she is
dominant.
In conclusion, this music video challenges Mulvey’s theory to an extent .
