The Male Gaze is the idea that men objectify and sexualise women. They depict them in ways that portray them as sexual objects.

Laura Mulvey was a British film theorist who tackled the centrality of the male viewer and his pleasure. She called this ‘The Male Gaze’. She wrote ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which showed all her findings and opinions.

John Peter Berger was known for his ‘Ways of Seeing’ This highlighted ‘The Male Gaze’.