Laura Mulvey and the male gaze
Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist who was born on the 15th of August 1941. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her current position. Mulvey created the term ‘Male Gaze’. She believed that the audience has to view the characters from a heterosexual males perspective. Gaze refers to someone to look steadily, intently and with attention. Gaze is the way that an audience see how someone is presented. For example females might think how men look at women, hoe women look at themselves and how women look at each other. There are features in which the ’Male Gaze’ is shown in film/media. Firstly the cameras are seen to focus on the curves of a woman's body. Events which occur to women are presented largely of the context of a mans reaction to these events.
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