The Theory Of The Male Gaze

Lauren Mulvey wrote a very influential essay called "Visual pleasure and Narrative cinema" (1975)

It suggest that the way women are viewed in cinema is 'unequal'. The camera necessarily presents women as "sexualised" for the pleasure of men

Mulvey's Three types of "looking"

1) The look of the camera as it records the films events.

2) The look of the audience as it watches the final film product.

3) The look of the characters at each other in the visual images of the screen illusion.