Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory argues that in film, women are typically portrayed as sexual objects to be looked at through shot types and camera movements that emphasize their bodies and curves. The theory focuses on how men look at women, how women look at themselves, and how women look at other women in films. Specifically, it suggests that the camera lingers on women's bodies in a way that pleases the heterosexual male gaze and portrays women as objects to be looked at rather than subjects with their own agency.

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.