The Male Gaze

The male gaze is an objectification of and towards women. The ‘gaze’ is looked at as sexualising women and objectifying them and empowering men, to indicate that females feelings and thoughts are less important than women being ‘framed’ by male desire.

Laura Mulvey, is a feminist who explains that most films are designed to visually pleasure masculine ‘scopophilia’. Scopophilia is the sexual pleasure in looking. Her concept is described as a heterosexual, masculine gaze. She argues the disliking of women being sexualised by their body language and fashion in most movies, and how women are there to be a visual pleasure for men.