What is the Male Gaze?

Considering what I've mentioned in the previous blog about the representation of females in media, British feminist and film theorist Laura Mulvey presented a statement that society is dominated by a heterosexual male gaze.

This created the sexual imbalance in the symbolic order where the male is active and the female is passive. Women in movies are objectified and are represented through the eyes of a heterosexual male; this mostly targets the male audience and females on the screen are there to be observed, not to make any other meaning.

The male gaze tells us how women look at other women, how women look at themselves and how males look at women. The idea of the male gaze can create a lot of insecurities among other women because they are not represented as beautiful as they think are on screens.

In the example below (movie- Women's Job) the way that the actress is represented is through the body and slowed down music, showing us how they are just observing her and that the only way for her to get what she wants is through her body and looks.

˝ Woman's desire is subjugated(...)as a bearer, not maker, of meaning.˝

-Quotation by Laura Mulvey

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