Male Gaze Analysis

As the rapid development of modernization sweep over developed countries in late 20th and early 21st century, different kind of idea such as fairness between human right is emphasized, like gender fairness. Although visual media often considered to act “largely as a social mirror” (Hummm, 1997: 13or Coppock, 1995:111), films in fact often distort social reality and continue to reflect traditional stereotypical gender constructions(Fol ,2006). In many mainstream films, even in the most lucrative and internationally successful movie, Hollywood movie, that pretend to depict reality, male gaze is actually used non-deliberately, or otherwise, deliberately, to depict female. Thus, women have hardly been able to enact their new images of an emancipated …show more content…
The male gaze takes place when the camera puts the audience into the perspective of a heterosexual man. Under which women are portrayed as object of the gaze, while men are portrayed as the bearer of the gaze. The spectator is constructed as male since the camera puts the viewers into the perspective of a heterosexual male viewer: The camera follows the male eyes. Mulvery in her “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” points out that male gaze projects their illusions upon female images (Mulvery, 1975), which makes woman is surveyed and man is the …show more content…
The Danish Girl takes the “touchy” subject of transgender artist Lili Elbe’s life, which is about a portrait artist couple, Einar Wegner and Gerder Wegener, who have been living happily after married. But after posing as a female figure requested by his wife, Gerder Wegener, Einar Wegner lifelong identification of being a woman was unmasked, whom she has named Lili Elbe. Due to Einar’s struggles with her identity, they started to seek help from doctor around the country. And the visual image of the trailer portrayed Einar Wegner’s journey in transform into “entire Lili” by sex reassignment