Sexual Objectification Of Women In Film

Many feminists have pointed that classical Hollywood film has been associated with the “male gaze” in most case. British feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey (1975) expands on this conception to argue that in cinema women are typically depicted in a passive role that provides visual pleasure for male viewing that male audience tend to take the female character in film as his own personal sex object because, he can relate himself, through ‘looking’, to the male character in the film.

Not only in film, but some feminists see objectification of women taking place in the sexually oriented in advertising and media, and argue that sexual objectification can lead to negative psychological effects including eating disorders, depression and can give