Gaze

The male gaze is the way in which visual arts depicts women for a masculine point of view. Mulvey suggests that visual media exposes a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking. Mulvey believed mainstream movies are filmed in a certain way in order to satisfy male scopophilia. Therefore, according to this theory woman are regulated to the status of objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any influence on the plot but only provide a sense of erotic spectacle. However, Mulveys gaze theory could have less relevance in the early twentieth century due to technological advancements and change in social dynamics. Visual culture has progressed considerably…

Time Stamp: Ex Machina 1:32:54-1:38:44 TITLE Composer of the male gaze, Laura Mulvey, explains how a heterosexual male views different aspects occurring in a film. The male gaze captures how male viewers depict females within the film. In Alex Garland’s movie, Ex Machina, there is an abundant usage of the male gaze occurring through Nathan and Caleb’s perspective. The male gaze is important in this film because it reveals to the audience who truly holds the power. Throughout the film…

Gaze: I am impressive with the article “Gender Roles in Advertising a lot. As another person, I see a lot of magazines, advertisings, banners, but I have not notice about the “gaze” of the models in all of those pictures until I read this visual essay. It is wonderful to recognize the meaning of the “gaze” and how it affects the viewer. In the Gucci ad we ca she that the woman has a power to control the man and her eyes look like talk to the viewer that: “I sexy and I know it”. How smart it…

Society today has the common misconception that women are no longer objectified through visual media as the were in the past, this is not true. The Gaze is a term that was originally used during the film industry during the 1970s that refers to how someone views any visual medium. How women are viewed within society has changed over the years but one can see through visual media used today, women are still portrayed in a certain manner in order to sell or promote products. One can see the…

“The Gaze,” also known as “The Male Gaze,” is a concept that has been prevalent in the arts for hundreds of years. Throughout history, male viewers have perceived women as taboo, pleasurable, beautiful, offensive, and sometimes all of these at once. These unfair judgments were dismissed far too often. Sometimes, the use of an “imagined spectator,” where the viewer of a piece becomes an essential part of it, draws awareness and strong responses to these issues. In Ways of Seeing, John Berger…

In visual culture, the male gaze is described as a point of view in which the viewer registers their surroundings in the perspective of a heterosexual male. More often than not, in this point of view, women are seen as objects of sexual pleasure aimed specifically for the male viewer. Media uses the male gaze to entice the viewer into believing that they are in control of whatever situation is being presented. In this response, I will be discussing an advertisement from The Competition Issue:…

One of the most infamously hated scenes from Titus Andronicus is that in which Marcus discovers Lavinia after she has been raped and mutilated. While there are many disturbing visual elements surrounding Lavinia’s rape, including her attackers Chiron and Demetrius dancing around her in the mud and mocking her, perhaps the most disturbing is the fact that she has been put on display for anyone to find. When Marcus comes upon her (starting at 1:06:45), the camera pans from him to a wide shot of…

Dictionary, Oxford University Press), but in cinema, voyeurism has been used as a plot tool for decades. Hitchcock films depict the roles a man and woman have in marriage through various tools, but in Rear Window, it is through voyeurism that the story is set in motion, and it is because of the main characters voyeuristic activity that we are able to see how he feels about getting married. This represents a central theme in the film as throughout the movie we see essentially every character be…

Bruzzi’s claims can be exemplified in the marriage scene of Ada and Stewart where the audience gazes as Ada is fitted into her wedding dress. Ada exposes her disinterested in the activities surrounding her and as such her contention towards the spectacle is underlined when she is criticized by one of the house maids and disapprovingly told that if she cannot have a ceremony, she will at least have a photograph. In this scene, Campion places emphasis wedding dress on the preparations here only…

visual metaphors and especially his use of the gaze. The gaze describes the perspective the audience is put into when viewing a work of art. Traditionally the audience is looking through the viewpoint of a heterosexual male. The gaze has been present in art for many years, however it has only recently been identified by theorists and art historians. The idea of the ‘male gaze’ was formally introduced by feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.…