Laura Mulvey explains her theory in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. An example of the Male Gaze occurs when the camera lingers over a woman’s body displaying her as an erotic object for the viewers to feel pleasure in (Mulvey). It allows men to appear dominant and woman to appear passive. The Male Gaze strip women of their human identity, redefining their status as a commodity to be admired by men to fulfill their desires and fantasies. The inequality shown can be blamed by the patriarchal society that has existed since the beginning of time. Men created the idea of viewing women as objects and over time these constructed beliefs remained unchallenged allowing them to be accepted as the social norm
Laura Mulvey explains her theory in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. An example of the Male Gaze occurs when the camera lingers over a woman’s body displaying her as an erotic object for the viewers to feel pleasure in (Mulvey). It allows men to appear dominant and woman to appear passive. The Male Gaze strip women of their human identity, redefining their status as a commodity to be admired by men to fulfill their desires and fantasies. The inequality shown can be blamed by the patriarchal society that has existed since the beginning of time. Men created the idea of viewing women as objects and over time these constructed beliefs remained unchallenged allowing them to be accepted as the social norm