Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey

1. The concept of gaze is one that deals with how audiences view the people presented.

2. Some women enjoyed being looked at, e.g beauty pageants. The gaze can also be directed to people of the same gender for several reasons, mot all of which are sexual, such as in comparison of body image and clothing.

3. Some theorists have also noted the sexualising of the female body even in a situation whjere females sexiness doesn't have anything to do with the thing being advertised or any other media image.

4. The camera often lingers on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to the women are presented largely in a context of the mans reactions.

   • Relegates women to the status of objects.

5. For feminists it can be thought of in three ways;

   • How women look at themselves
   • How men look at women
   • How women look at other women