Laura Mulvey developed the theory of the "male gaze" in 1975 to describe how media portrays and objectifies women from a masculine point of view for the sexual gratification of the male viewer. The essay analyzes how films like Wolf of Wall Street and Transformers oversexualize female characters like Margot Robbie's and Megan Fox's roles. This objectification reflects the male-dominated film industry's view that such portrayals of women are acceptable. In contrast, women are often portrayed in a more revealing manner on the covers of Women's Health magazine compared to how men are portrayed on the covers of Men's Health magazine.

1. How is the Male Gaze relevant when analysing Women’s
Health Magazine Versus Men Health’s Magazine?
Women’s health magazine was founded in 2005and first started
selling in the UK in 2012.Men’s health was founded back in 1986
and began selling in the UK in 1995.
Since both began in their respective years both have begun their
rises to the top and throughout these pages, we are going to be
diving into looking at how both differ in how the male version
covers tends to use more clothed males but then you have the
women’s version tends to use women who are less clothed and
showing skin. This is a deep dive into the issues and effect of this
methods.
The Male Gaze Theory is a theory that describes a way of
portraying and looking at women that empowers men all the
while sexualising and diminishing the women. The origins of the
Male Gaze began came from 1975when scholar/filmmaker Laura
Mulvey wrote in her 1975essay which has now become very
famous as the male gaze has developed more and more into the
world as we know it now.
Laura Mulvey is probably the most famous person when it comes
to the Male Gaze because of her 1975essay.
Mulvey since the essay has continued to publish reports and
write articles about how the Male Gaze.

2. She was born August 15, 1941, and the career has been
dedicated to being a feminist film theorist. Her education came
from St Hilda’s College in Oxford. She currently is a professor of
film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Before
Birkbeck Mulvey taught at Bulmershe College, the London
College of Printing, the University of East Anglia, and the British
Film Institute. Her most famous moment came in 1975when he
wrote her essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ it was
originally written in 1973 but published two years later in the
British film theory journal screen. She has been awarded 3
honorary degrees in 2006,2009,2012.
Mulvey, had a report written about her essay and her views
which was published in 2015 by Rachael Simpson explaining
Mulvey views and what films fit into the points she makes about
the Male Gaze. One film that is mentioned is Wolf of Wall Street
and how Margot Robbie is rather sexualised in certain scenes in
the film and how much this proves her point about the Male
Gaze.
The one scene that is scene is question is where Margot Robbie
playing Naomi and Leonardo DiCaprio playing Jordan are in their
daughter’s bedroom and the two begin to argue and Jordan tries
to apologise for what he’s done and how much he loves Naomi
in an attempt to sort things out but Naomi in her mood says her
famous line ‘Mommy doesn’t want to hear it’ followed by ‘And
from now on, there’s gonna be nothing but short, short skirts
around the house.”
Now the line may seem simple and unharmful but in truth as
Mulvey’s theory explains that Margot Robbie in the scene has

3. been sexualised and it is also sexualising women and how
women give in to their men when he says sorry, and they then
go back to a marriage with sex. In scene Naomi is also wearing an
extremely short pink dress and at one point she opens her legs
to show Jordan what he’ll be missing, and his face says
everything. Mulvey’s comments about Wolf of Wall Street is that
the film reveals women and shows them in a majorly over
sexualised way and in ways that are extremely unnecessary. The
reason behind this view is the films are directed by male
dominated and cinema is a male dominated world. Mulvey had
originally written a very critical analysis of films and producers.
This particular scene shows off that in Hollywood Male
producers do believe that in their films they can portray women
in an oversexualised way and still believe it is the right way to
portray them in their film. Films such as Wolf of Wall Street,
Transformers and Spring Breakers are all prefect examples of
this. Transformers directed by Michael Bay and released in 2007.
Bay casted Megan Fox to play the role of Sam Witwicky and
there is one scene that is always mentioned when you think
about the first Transformers film and that is when Megan Fox is
bent over in a low-cut crop top working under the bonnet of her
car and the scene over time has slowly become more and more
sexualised as Megan Fox has become one of the worlds most
attractive women on the earth. Wolf of Wall Street features
many scenes in which Margot Robbie’s character Naomi is put
into a situation where she is majorly sexualised and again this is
viewed as okay in the terms of the film but as Mulvey later went
on to explain how these big directors think these ways are okay
when in truth looking at the bigger picture women shouldn’t be
viewed in this manner.

4. Women’s health magazine is a highly popular magazine for
women who are in shape or wanting to get in shape. The Male
Gaze is applied because of the front covers and some of the
pictures that the magazine use for that week’s edition. Now is
may being confusing but when you look at the Women’s health
magazine compared to the Men’s health magazine the difference
between the two magazines is how men rarely are uncovered
whereas the women are most of the time in revealing bikinis or
short outfits which show off a lot of skin. The magazine is mainly
used to