On the other hand, the men on the screen are the ones that look and who spectators identify with and “enjoy vicarious control and possession of the women” (Mulvey 1989). In Mulvey’s theory she states that there are three sets of looks in cinema: (1) the camera’s look at the pro-filmic reality (2) the audience’s look at the final film product, and (3) the character’s look at each other. The way in which narrative cinema is made is used to make the spectators forget that there is a camera and the fact that they are actually watching a film. Mulvey states that this works to deny the first (1) and second (2)statement and favors the third (3)statement. This then allows the film to create an “illusion of a world where the male protagonist acts as the spectator’s surrogate” (Mulvey
On the other hand, the men on the screen are the ones that look and who spectators identify with and “enjoy vicarious control and possession of the women” (Mulvey 1989). In Mulvey’s theory she states that there are three sets of looks in cinema: (1) the camera’s look at the pro-filmic reality (2) the audience’s look at the final film product, and (3) the character’s look at each other. The way in which narrative cinema is made is used to make the spectators forget that there is a camera and the fact that they are actually watching a film. Mulvey states that this works to deny the first (1) and second (2)statement and favors the third (3)statement. This then allows the film to create an “illusion of a world where the male protagonist acts as the spectator’s surrogate” (Mulvey