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Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze 
Theory
Women are there to be seen and portrayed as 
sexual objects through shot types and movement. 
Her focus was; 
1. How men look at women from those images. 
2. How women look at themselves from those images. 
3. How women look at other women from those images. (Do they see 
them as sexual objects or unrealistic ideologies they are supposed 
to conform to?)
Focuses on; 
• Emphasising the curves of the female body. 
• How they are seen as objects. 
• Displayed how men think they should be perceived. 
• Female viewers view content through eyes of a man. 
• Often sexualised and seen as objects, and viewed based upon sexual desire 
and the way they look. 
• Perspective of a heterosexual male (i.e.-camera lingers on curves). 
• Women are typically objects rather than the possessors-displayed by 
control of camera. 
• Camera movements perceive women in an idealistic view. Some women 
disagree with the use of camera yet others may feel liberated.
• Man emerges as dominant power within film fantasy. Woman is 
passive to the active gaze from the man. 
• Focuses on areas of the body you would expect to see men gazing at, 
e.g. breasts and bottom. 
• Mulvey states the female gaze is the same as the male gaze because 
women look at themselves through the eyes of men.
“Blame”-Calvin 
Harris. 
“Prayer In C”- 
Lilly Wood 
“I’m Not The 
Only One”-Sam 
Smith 
“Shake It Off”- 
Taylor Swift 
“Black Widow”- 
Iggy Azalea 
Emphasises 
curves. 
Women as 
objects. 
Women to 
please men. 
Female view as 
men. 
Sexualised, seen 
as objects and 
viewed on 
sexual desire 
and how they 
look.

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Laura mulvey’s Male Gaze Theory

  • 1. Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze Theory
  • 2. Women are there to be seen and portrayed as sexual objects through shot types and movement. Her focus was; 1. How men look at women from those images. 2. How women look at themselves from those images. 3. How women look at other women from those images. (Do they see them as sexual objects or unrealistic ideologies they are supposed to conform to?)
  • 3. Focuses on; • Emphasising the curves of the female body. • How they are seen as objects. • Displayed how men think they should be perceived. • Female viewers view content through eyes of a man. • Often sexualised and seen as objects, and viewed based upon sexual desire and the way they look. • Perspective of a heterosexual male (i.e.-camera lingers on curves). • Women are typically objects rather than the possessors-displayed by control of camera. • Camera movements perceive women in an idealistic view. Some women disagree with the use of camera yet others may feel liberated.
  • 4. • Man emerges as dominant power within film fantasy. Woman is passive to the active gaze from the man. • Focuses on areas of the body you would expect to see men gazing at, e.g. breasts and bottom. • Mulvey states the female gaze is the same as the male gaze because women look at themselves through the eyes of men.
  • 5. “Blame”-Calvin Harris. “Prayer In C”- Lilly Wood “I’m Not The Only One”-Sam Smith “Shake It Off”- Taylor Swift “Black Widow”- Iggy Azalea Emphasises curves. Women as objects. Women to please men. Female view as men. Sexualised, seen as objects and viewed on sexual desire and how they look.