The male gaze is the theory that men sexualise and objectify woman and portray them as sexual objects

Laura Mulvey, a British film theorist, challenged the centrality of the male viewer and his pleasure. This is called ‘The Male Gaze’. She wrote ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which exposed her views an opinions. she was well known as a strong feminist and believed in equal rights between women and men.

The concept of ‘The Gaze’ was first used by John Berger, an art critic, in ‘ways of seeing’. This was a documentary that analysed the representation of women.