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The Male Gaze
LAURA MULVEY
“VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE
CINEMA” - 1975
Laura Mulvey
 Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist, she

is best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema”
 She suggested that the way in which females are
viewed in cinema is “unequal”. The camera
necessarily presents woman as “sexualised” for the
pleasure of men
Muvley’s three types of “looking”

The look of the
character at each
other in the visual
image of the screen
illusion
(the way in which the
male and female in
screen look at each
other)

The look of the
camera as it records
the filmic event
(Camera shot and
angles)

The look of the audience as it
watches the final film product
(the way they perceive the look of
the woman)

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The Male Gaze

  • 1. The Male Gaze LAURA MULVEY “VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA” - 1975
  • 2. Laura Mulvey  Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist, she is best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”  She suggested that the way in which females are viewed in cinema is “unequal”. The camera necessarily presents woman as “sexualised” for the pleasure of men
  • 3. Muvley’s three types of “looking” The look of the character at each other in the visual image of the screen illusion (the way in which the male and female in screen look at each other) The look of the camera as it records the filmic event (Camera shot and angles) The look of the audience as it watches the final film product (the way they perceive the look of the woman)