Male Gaze

Representation: The Male Gaze.

o The ways viewers(men) look at images of people in any visual medium.
o Jonathan Schroeder said "to gaze implies more than to look at"
o Psycological relationship of power in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze.

Different Types Of Gaze

o The spectators gaze- spectator viewing the text.
o The intra- dietic gaze- character gazes upon an object or another character in the text.
o The direct adress to the viewer- looks at the viewer (forth wall)
o The look of the camera- film directors gaze
o The gaze of the bystander- the gaze of another individual
o The gaze of an audience within a text- shots of an audience watching those performing

LAURA MULVEY

"Visual pleasure & narrative cinema"
Active male/passive female
Woman as image & man as bearer if the look

Voyeuristic- is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature.

Fetishistic- is the sexual arousal brought on by any object, situation or body part not conventionally viewed as being sexual in nature.

Critisisms

Failiure to account for female spectator
Only looks at the spectator as being a hetro sexual male
Since 1980's been more display & sexulisation of the male body

PAUL MESSARIS

Traditionally, men do not look directly into the camera although during the past two decades there had been a notable rise in male-oriented advertising featuring men whose poses contain some of the same elements likely to indicate an explicit concern about how men look in the eyes of the woman.