Gaze

the male gaze and may take it lightly but soon can find themselves fixated on viewing females through the male gaze lens and become addicted with no way out. Through the use of images and visual, Beyoncé is showing the viewers that the media lures and entices heterosexual males into becoming slaves to their creation of the male gaze. Beyoncé does this through the oppositional gaze. In the article The Oppositional Gaze by bell hooks states that “women can construct an oppositional gaze via an…

mentioned was cinema as a visual experience, more precisely cinema as eye or as a look and gaze. All of Elsaesser’s ideas can be related to and exemplified in the mystery/thriller…

fixation) visual angle vertically. The centres of each adjacent face position were separated by 1.5° of visual angle vertically. Following stimulus presentation, participants were required to discriminate whether the target face had a direct or an averted gaze as quickly and as accurately as possible, using a two-button press with their index and middle fingers of their dominant hand. Responses were made using the b and m keys of a standard keyboard, which were counterbalanced across…

The Male Gaze and Gender Stereotypes in Popular Culture Popular culture is significance of structuring race, class, and gender. “Although popular culture can be a powerful mechanism for sharping us, it can also be a vehicle for challenging structured inequalities and social injustices” (Guy, 2007, P. 15). According to Guy (2007), popular culture emerged as a concept in nineteenth-centry England and was taken to mean the culture of the masses. It was frequently used in contrast to ‘high culture’.…

traditionally focus on a male protagonist with an assumed male viewer. Men are presented as controlling characters and treat women as docile objects of desire; this applies to both on screen and to viewers. Women are objectified in relation to the male gaze, showcasing women as an image and men as owner of what is to be viewed. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window gives us that male protagonist who observes voyeuristically at his neighbors, including the highly sexualized Miss Torso for most of the…

The following are two advertisements on perfume by Instinct and Giorgio Armani, which demonstrated the power of degree given from man to woman. Power is authorized from male’s gaze and how the female is trying to impress themselves sexually available to men in the advertisements. Self-fetishism is a sign to resemble self-empowerment, it is also a key to reckon how power can be given by male to female. In order to further emphasize on the establishment of self-appearances on a female’s body,…

1) Discuss the gaze represented by these two paintings. Whose gaze is privileged? How does the imagery tell us that? What is significant about the gaze portrayed or suggested by these two paintings? Patricia Simons explained that women were the object of the male gaze. Women were portrayed to show off and express their virtue to men and display that they are worthy of marriage. In the painting of Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola by Anguissola, the gaze of the male is dominating…

our course is Gaze. From the lecture…

relationship of the direction of eye gaze, whether direct or indirect, and the gender it was presented in. It was hypothesized that the direction of gaze (direct or averted gaze) would affect the ratings of competence in opposite directions for males and females. It was considered that females with averted eye gaze would have a lower rating of competence than females with direct eye gaze, and males with averted eye gaze would seem less competent than males with direct eye gaze, these 4…

which Mary Cassatt created in 1891, illustrate inequalities in class and gender. As art used to be considered a field only for men, the male gaze was and is very commonly found in art. Male gaze is when a female subject is seen through the view of a man and often seems objectified. Manet, in Olympia, and Cassatt, in most of her work, either invert the gaze or work to entirely remove it. In addition to showing women in a more positive light, these artists also painted people of a low class in a…