The male gaze

The male gaze was a theory made by a woman called Laura Mulvey in 1975.



The male gaze is about the visual arts from a masculine perspective. The camera tries to put the audience into the visual of a heterosexual male. Mulvey argues that in cinema the male gaze is used more dominantly than the female gaze.



For an example of the male gaze, the camera may focus on more female features like the curves for longer periods of time, this is to make the males in the scenes look dominant compared to the females as well as making women seem like an object who are seen based only on their physical appearance.