What's the male gaze?
The 'gaze' is how the audience looks at and see's certain people in that scenario.
For Women the male gaze can be looked at in 3 different ways:
- How men look at the women.
- How the women look and see themselves.
- How women see and portray other women.
The features of the male gaze:
The camera lingers on the figure of the female body, and the event which may occur to the women are presented in the context of the mans.
The male gaze tends to relegate the women to the status of objects. A female viewer must see the narrative in a different way, by identification with the male.
Criticism of Mulvey and Gaze theory:
A criticism is that women like to be looked at E.G: Beauty Pageants.
The gaze can also be directed at people of the same gender, not all of which are sexual, some may be because of the clothes someone is wearing or through body image.
The gaze can also be directed at people of the same gender, not all of which are sexual, some may be because of the clothes someone is wearing or through body image.
Categorizing facial expressions
Women
- chocolate box
- invitational
-super smiler
- romantic or sexual
Majorie Ferguson (1980)
Men
- carefree
- practical
- seductive
Trevor Millum (1975)
Key Theorists Believe:
Johnathon Schroeder (1998) - "To gaze implies more than a look - it signifies psychological relationship of power in which the gaze is superior to the object of the gaze.''
Women
- chocolate box
- invitational
-super smiler
- romantic or sexual
Majorie Ferguson (1980)
Men
- carefree
- practical
- seductive
Trevor Millum (1975)
Key Theorists Believe:
Johnathon Schroeder (1998) - "To gaze implies more than a look - it signifies psychological relationship of power in which the gaze is superior to the object of the gaze.''
Homework
As an audience we found it hard to answer the questions because we found ourselves distracted by the woman. Most of the camera shots we advertising her body parts which made it very hard to concentrate on the questions that we were supposed to answer. Most of the time the in the video its was focusing on the man but even still it was hard because when it went on to the girl it was enhancing how beautiful she is and it makes it very hard not to get distracted by that as we were still interested in the lady.
WWW: You have fully explained the theory using notes and resources from the lesson. You have recognised the way in which the audience was focused on the woman in the music video and explained why the audience would be unable to answer questions unrelated to the woman.
ReplyDeleteEBI: You had linked the homework to the theory. How is the theory shown in the task? How is it related? You also need to fully explain certain parts of your write up as at the moment it is in note form. What has ‘beauty pageant’ got to do with criticism of theory? Why do you think men and women are represented differently when looking at their facial expressions?
SBT