Gaze

active and female characters as passive (Mulvey). Mulvey theorizes, “pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure which is styled accordingly.” (19) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams 2015) attempts to contradict this component of the male gaze, through female protagonist, Rey (Daisy Ridley), because Rey’s character is active within the narrative…

Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to the widely popular film shedding light on the male entertainment industry, is a film that is geared towards heterosexual women and their viewing pleasure. The audience follows Mike, a male stripper-turned-furniture business owner, as he reunites with his former stripper buddies and travels to Myrtle Beach for a final appearance at a male stripper convention. Delving into the themes of the sexualization of the male body and fulfillment of female pleasure, Magic Mike…

What is considered as the term ‘the gaze' can be constructed of how a society views individuals or even a group of individuals of the same qualities. An individual's perception can affect the functionality of society and civilisation. By assessing the gaze, we can determine how groups of individuals will be treated. It is common that the different groups of minorities that make up society, for example- homosexuals, will stand out of the ‘norms' that make up our everyday lives which can, in turn,…

Most movies are structured for the male audience’s pleasure, “His Girl Friday” is no exception to that. Directed by Howard Hawks, “His Girl Friday” is a 1940’s screwball comedy that is full of wit and most describe as ahead of it’s time. On the surface, the movie seems like a great start of the commentary of role-reversal or being a working female of the time. However, upon deeper inspection that isn’t the case. “His Girl Friday”, though progressive for the time with the main female lead being…

Prompt #2 From Margins to Center The Structure of “Gaze” and Women in Art Throughout the recorded history, we have lived in patriarchal social systems. Male artists dominate the art world and art is made for male audiences. Not only are women represented in singular and passive ways, but also some works were transgressing against females. Men maintain a studio system, which has excluded women from training as artists, a gallery system that has kept them from exhibiting and selling their…

should not have been driving. While speaking to Clark I could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from Clark’s breath and she was crying and slurring her speech and stumbling. I had Clark step to the rear of the vehicle and I conducted Horizontal Gaze and Nystagmus test were I observed all six indicators indicating Clark was over the legal limit. Due to the…

The gaze is a well known theory and can be applied to every day life weather we are aware of it or not. The gaze theory states that the object or subject unaware of its audience will create variations of desire and therefore create a link/relationship between the people looking and people been looked at. The gaze is not as literal as it seems and is much more complex to achieve then merely putting on a performance. The gaze was more of a manner in which the spectator looked and the effect of it…

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…

of medical practice, clinical gaze. In Foucault’s concept of clinical gaze, medical practice and the power relationship between doctors and their patients have been transformed (1973). Foucault says “‘facilitated by the medical technologies that frame and focus the physicians’ optical grasp of the patient, the medical gaze abstracts the suffering person from her sociological context and reframes her as a “case” or a “condition”(Ibid., 23). The idea of clinical gaze has the power to influence…

“To gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies a psychological relationship of power in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze”, (Schroeder, J: 1998). Since the dawn of time, it has been depicted that a women’s place in society is defined by the outward manifestation of her appearance. Thus, in terms of the Gaze in film, the camera reflects and reveals the socially established interpretation of woman as sexual objects (Mulvey, L: 1975) from the viewpoint of a male perspective…